ຫວາຍກະທີງ / Bull Rattan
APA 6th ed. ຫວາຍກະທີງ / Bull Rattan. (2021, September 7). Retrieved from https://www.phakhaolao.la/index.php/kb/0000148
MLA 8th ed. ຫວາຍກະທີງ / Bull Rattan. Pha Khao Lao, 7 September 2021, https://www.phakhaolao.la/index.php/kb/0000148.
Chicago 17th ed. Pha Khao Lao. 2021. "ຫວາຍກະທີງ / Bull Rattan." Published September 7, 2021. https://www.phakhaolao.la/index.php/kb/0000148.
Description. Stems clustered, climbing, to 7 m long and 1 cm diameter. Leaf sheaths green with scattered, brown, needle-like, to 0.7 cm long spines; ocreas present; knees present; flagella present, to 1.8 m long; petioles to 10 cm long; rachis to 0.6 m long with 5-9, elliptic leaflets per side, these clustered, the apical ones close together in a fan shape, the apical pair joined at their bases; cirri absent. Inflorescences to 2.2 m long, flagellate, the first partial inflorescence not or scarcely branched; bracts tubular; fruits globose, to 0.7 cm diameter, yellowish. Distribution and habitat. Central Laos (also in Thailand) in lowland evergreen forest at low elevations.
Uses. Provides a cane used in making handicrafts.