Rattan palm

Drawing by Calamus rotang , 1831

As rattan or rattan mostly climbing growing representatives of several genera of the palm family called. Many of them are suppliers of the raw material rattan . The rattan palms include species of the following genera:

• Calamus
• Retispatha
• Daemonorops
• Ceratolobus
• Pogonotium
• Plectocomia
• Myrialepis
• Plectocomiopsis

These are the representatives of the two sub-tribes Plectocomiinae and Calaminae within the tribe Calameae .

supporting documents

• John Dransfield, Natalie W. Uhl, Conny B. Asmussen, William J. Baker, Madeline M. Harley, Carl E. Lewis: Genera Palmarum. The Evolution and Classification of Palms . Second edition, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84246-182-2 , pp. 182ff.