Rattan PRODUCT NAME
Korthalsia Bl. SCIENTIFIC NAME
| Common Name: | Rattan |
| Local Name: | |
| Family: | |
| Other Species of Same Genera: | |
| Product Description: | Habit: slender to robust clustering; high-climbing hermaphrodite rattans, frequently branching in the canopy. Sheath spines: sparse to moderately dense. Knee: absent. Ocrea: fibrous; net-like. Climbing organ: cirrus present. Leaf: petiole short; leaflets sparsely and regularly arranged; diamond-shaped; margin erose; surface with many veins; plicate; glabrous often with grey cuticle on lower surface. Inflorescence: produced simultaneously in the axils of the uppermost; reduces leaves; the stem dying after fruiting. Inflorescences branch to produce pendulous catkin-like rachillae; each covered in a tight or loose spiral of bracts. Flowers bisexual; subtended by bracts with a dense mass of hairs; sepals 3; petals 3; much longer than sepals; short tubular at base; stamens 6 or rarely 7; borne on petals; ovary with sharp; pyramid-shaped stigma; and rows of scales. Fruit: fruits with stigma, surrounded by the remains of the corolla; scales brownish, arranged in neat vertical rows; sarcotesta, fleshy, sweet. Seed is ruminating. |
| NTFP Classification: | Crafts and furniture making |
DISTRIBUTION
| Countries Found: | |
| Description: |
USES AND PARTS USED
| Parts Used: | |
| Uses: |
| Origin: | |
| Management Practices: | |
| Market Information: | |
| Partners: | WWF Greater Mekong – Cambodia Country Programme |
PARTNERS INVOLVED IN ACTIVITIES CONCERNING THIS NTFP
| Duration: | |
| Activity: | |
| External Links: |
