ຫວາຍງາ / Elephant trunk Rattan

Description. Stems clustered (and also branching above ground level), climbing, to 50 m long and 2 cm diameter. Leaf sheaths green with brown hairs, with scattered, black, triangular, to 1 cm long spines; ocreas to 13 cm long, sheathing, becoming loose and net-like in older leaves; knees absent; flagella absent; petioles to 15 cm long; rachis to 0.5 m long with  4-8, rhomboidal leaflets per side, these regularly arranged, 17-20 cm long, 6-11 cm wide, with jagged apices, silvery-gray on the lower surfaces; cirri
present, to 0.3 m long. Inflorescences to 0.4 m long; fruits obovoid, to 0.8 cm long and 0.7 cm diameter, yellow-brown. Distribution and habitat. Laos and central and southern Vietnam in lowland evergreen, semi-evergreen, or montane forest at 100-892 m elevation. Flowering and fruiting. Fruits May. (M. Peters & A. Henderson, 2014).