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YELLOW LAWYER CANE FACTS |
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Common Name
Yellow Lawyer Cane
Other Names
Large Lawyer Cane, Wait-a-while, Yellow Lawyer Vine
Description
Yellow Lawyer Cane is a climbing palm with dense bristly spines on the stems, leaf sheaths and leaf stalks. The spines on the leaf sheaths are in rows. The leaves are compound and grow to about two metres long with several dozen leaflets making up the leaf. It has long tendrils with sharp hooks which can tear the clothes and skin of travellers in the rainforest. The small greenish flowers are produced in summer in long narrow hanging spikes or panicles that can be up to three metres long. The fruit is round about 12mm in diameter and covered in scales making a zigzag geometric pattern.
Habitat
rainforest
Distribution
Calamus moti is found in coastal areas of north east Queensland from around Cooktown to around Mackay
Growth Characteristics
Height: vigorous climber - canes may be tens of metres
Classification
| Class: | Liliopsida | | Order: | Arecales | | Family: | Arecaceae | | Genus: | Calamus | | Species: | moti | | Common Name: | Yellow Lawyer Cane |
Relatives in same Genus
Calamus australis
Calamus caryotoides
Calamus muelleri
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