ຫວາຍແດງນ້ອຍ / Red Slender Rattane

Description. Stems clustered, climbing and forming thickets, to 15 m long and 2.5 cm diameter. Leaf sheaths green or grayish, with scattered, yellow, needle-like, to 2 cm long (longer at sheath apices) spines; ocreas to 3 cm long, becoming tattered; knees absent; flagella absent; petioles short or absent; rachis to 1.3 m long with 12-20, lanceolate leaflets per side, these irregularly arranged, pendulous, with conspicuous, yellow bristles on the upper surfaces; cirri present, to 0.5 m long. Inflorescences to 0.4 m long; fruits depressed-globose, to 3 cm long and 3.5 cm diameter, yellowish-green. Distribution and habitat. Cambodia, Laos, and South-central Vietnam in Binh Thuan, Dong Nai, and Khanh Hoa)(also in Myanmar, Thailand, Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, and Sumatra) in lowland evergreen forest, usually in disturbed places or forest margins, at 20-158 m elevation. Flowering and fruiting. Fruits May. (M. Peters & A. Henderson, 2014).