ຫວາຍກະເທີຍ / Ladyboy Rattan
APA 6th ed. ຫວາຍກະເທີຍ / Ladyboy Rattan. (2021, August 27). Retrieved from https://www.phakhaolao.la/kb/0000153
MLA 8th ed. ຫວາຍກະເທີຍ / Ladyboy Rattan. Pha Khao Lao, 27 August 2021, https://www.phakhaolao.la/kb/0000153.
Chicago 17th ed. Pha Khao Lao. 2021. "ຫວາຍກະເທີຍ / Ladyboy Rattan." Published August 27, 2021. https://www.phakhaolao.la/kb/0000153.
Plectocomia montana Hook.f. & Thomson [Invalid]
Plectocomia montana Griff. ex T.Anderson
Description. Stems clustered or sometimes solitary, climbing, to 20 m long and 10 cm diameter. Leaf sheaths brown with brownish hairs, with rows of brown, needle-like, to 2.5 cm long spines encircling the sheath; ocreas absent; knees absent; flagella absent; petioles to 15 cm long; rachis to 1.5 m long with 25-30 lanceolate leaflets per side, these clustered and spreading in different planes, green on the lower surfaces, usually attached by short stalks, with elongate, thread-like apices, without prominent submarginal veins and minutely spiny on the margins; cirri present, to 1 m long. Inflorescences to 0.8 m long; flowering branch bracts densely hairy on outer surfaces; fruits globose, to 1.5 cm diameter; fruit scales yellowish-brown, fringed, without bristly, erect apices. Distribution and habitat. Northern Laos (also in Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Thailand) in montane forest at 1,500-2,500 m elevation. (M. Peters & A. Henderson, 2014).
Uses. The canes are too soft to be of much use, but the pith is occasionally eaten.