Rattan PRODUCT NAME
Plectocomiopsis Becc. SCIENTIFIC NAME
| Common Name: | Rattan |
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| Product Description: | Habit: clustering; high-climbing rattans. Sheath spines: scattered; sometimes connate at base in very short rows of a few spines. Knee: absent. Ocrea: long tattering. Climbing organ; cirrus. Leaf: leaflets regularly arranged in one plane, with bristly margins. Inflorescence: produced simultaneously in the axes of uppermost leaves. Male and female superficially similar; primary axes branching to 2-3 orders; rachillae bearing tubular triangular-tipped bract s each subtending clusters of 2-7 flowers. Male flowers with tubular calyx; 3-triangular lobs; connate at base; stamens 6 joined to the petals. Female flowers with tubular calyx; 3 very short obtuse lobs; corolla 3-lobed; stamens 6; attached to stigma; 3 small; divergent stigma on ovary tip. Calyx enlarging, splitting irregularly, and persisting to mature fruit. Fruit: mature fruit with stigma; with many somewhat irregular; vertical rows of scale. Seed with thin sacostesta |
| NTFP Classification: | Crafts and furniture making |
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| Partners: | WWF Greater Mekong – Cambodia Country Programme |
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