ຫວາຍແດງ / Red Rattan

Stems clustered, climbing or forming thickets, to 20 m long and 3 cm diameter. Leaf sheaths dull green with rusty brown or light brown hairs, with scattered to densely arranged, brown, flattened, upward-pointing, to 3.5 (sometimes -10 at sheath apices) cm long spines; ocreas present, conspicuous, tattering and soon falling; knees present; flagella present, to 3 m long; petioles to 35 cm long; rachis to 1.3 m long with 30-65, linear-lanceolate leaflets per side, these regularly arranged, the apical ones smaller than the others; cirri absent. Inflorescences to 3 m long, flagellate, bracts not sheathing, split open and flat, brown; fruits globose, to 0.8 cm diameter, yellowish or brown. Distribution and habitat. Cambodia and southern Laos (also in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia) in lowland evergreen and montane forest, savannah woodland, mixed deciduous forest, and in disturbed places, especially roadsides, to 1,200 m elevation, rarely more. Flowering and fruiting. Flowers December. (M. Peters & A. Henderson, 2014).