Calamus godefroyi

Botanical Description

Calamus godefroyi is a spiny, evergreen climbing palm producing a cluster of long, slender, unbranched stems. The stems are 5 metres or more long, 15 - 40mm in diameter with internodes 10 - 15cm long[ 983 Title Annals of the Royal Botanical Garden, Calcutta Vol. XI and Appendix Publication Author Dr Odoardo Beccari Publisher Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta Year 1908 ISBN Description This volume of the journal is dedicated entirely to a monograph of the genus Calamus, which remains an important treatment over 100 years later. , 1019 Title A Field Guide of the Rattans of Cambodia Publication Author Khou Eang Hourt Publisher World Wildlife Fund Year 2008 ISBN Description A draft publication giving an excellent concise guide to the various rattan species growing in Cambodia. ]. The plant is extensively harvested from the wild, and also cultivated, as a source of material for making baskets, matting etc. The apical buds are also harvested as a source of food. The species occupies a habitat which is particularly vulnerable to clearance, it appears to be most severely threatened in sites in the Vientiane Plan, where the main threat is conversion of its habitat to seasonal rice fields. However, it is likely to be directly or indirectly threatened by most actions affecting Tonle Sap and the Mekong River, including uncontrolled logging and dam construction. The plant is classified as 'Near Threatened' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2013)[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].