ຫວາຍແດງ / Red Rattan
APA 6th ed. ຫວາຍແດງ / Red Rattan. (2020, June 23). Retrieved from https://www.phakhaolao.la/kb/0000143
MLA 8th ed. ຫວາຍແດງ / Red Rattan. Pha Khao Lao, 23 June 2020, https://www.phakhaolao.la/kb/0000143.
Chicago 17th ed. Pha Khao Lao. 2020. "ຫວາຍແດງ / Red Rattan." Published June 23, 2020. https://www.phakhaolao.la/kb/0000143.
Calamus mastersianus Griff.
Calamus multirameus Ridl.
Calamus nitidus Mart.
Daemonorops guruba (Buch.-Ham. ex Mart.) Mart.
Daemonorops guruba var. mastersianus (Griff.) Mart.
Palmijuncus guruba (Buch.-Ham. ex Mart.) Kuntze
Palmijuncus nitidus (Mart.) Kuntze
Lao: Wai deng
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).
Uses. Provides a good quality cane used in basket making and furniture making.