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PLANT FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Fishtail Lawyer Cane
Description
Fishtail Lawyer Cane is a climbing palm from tropical Queensland. The stems are slender canes only growing to about 15 mm in diameter with prickly spines. Like other Calamus species, it produces long arching tendrils with prickly hooks. The compound leaves are glossy green and made up of six to twelve fishtail shaped leaflets (similar to those of the Caryota palms). The palm produces hanging clusters of small white flowers followed by scaly orange-brown round fruits about 1 cm in diameter. This is one of the most ornamental species of Calamus.
Habitat
found in tropical rainforest where it is an understorey climber
Distribution
Calamus caryotoides is found on Cape York Peninsula , north east Queensland
Growth Characteristics
Height: to 15m
Classification
| Class: | Liliopsida | | Order: | Arecales | | Family: | Arecaceae | | Genus: | Calamus | | Species: | caryotoides | | Common Name: | Fishtail Lawyer Cane |
Relatives in same Genus
Calamus australis
Calamus moti
Calamus muelleri
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