Dear Satish ji, Here is a bit about Calamus tenuis
Climbing, growing in clumps, stem very large, slender, scandent. Leaves glabrous, pinnate, 45-75 cm long, setose above, leaflets 20-30 on each side, equidistant, alternate, linear lanceeolate, acuminate, gradually becoming smaller upward, setose above, up to 30 cm long and c. 1.5 cm broad. Petiole short, stout and pale; petiole and the nerves of the leaflets armed with straight spines. Leaf sheath armed with flat spines and bearing whip-like armed sterile inflorescence (flagella). Bracts many, elongated, tubular spiny, lower with a short limb and scattered recurved spines, upper shortly scruffy. Inflorescence very long, decompound, primary branches 4-6, flexuose. Flowers minute, male c. 2.5 mm long, secund in 3-4 series, imbricate - suberect. Fruit subglobose, c. 1.5 cm in diameter, mucronate; scales pale. Regards Tanay On Mar 9, 7:07 pm, promila chaturvedi <[email protected]> wrote: > Calamus tenuis has tender climbing stems. > > Promila > > Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:52:55 +0530 > Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:29127] Calamus tenuis is a tree/shrub? > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] > > Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter pl. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: satish pardeshi <[email protected]> > Date: 11 February 2010 15:55 > Subject: [efloraofindia:27574] Calamus tenuis is a tree/shrub? > To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> > > Recently i was in Bihar>>Paschim Champaran. I came across Swamp forest > in which Calamus tenuis was growing Luxuriously. Right now i was > making the plant profile for this species but am not able to put this > in a tree or a shrub. i referred most of the site where it is referred > as climbing palms/ rattans. can any body suggest wheather it falls > under tree or a shrub. > > Regards > > -- > Satish Pardeshi > Plant Taxonomist > Mumbai, Pune > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected])http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, Plants > etc. (arranged alphabetically & > place-wise):http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg > For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- > Efloraofindia:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > > _________________________________________________________________ > The latest songs, trailers and morehttp://video.in.msn.com/ - Hide quoted > text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
