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<taxonxHeader>

<mods:mods>

<mods:titleInfo><mods:title>A Manual of the rattans of the Malay Peninsula. Malayan Forest Recirds 29.</mods:title></mods:titleInfo>

<mods:name>

<mods:namePart type="family">Dransfield</mods:namePart>

<mods:namePart type="given">J.</mods:namePart>

</mods:name>

<mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued>1979</mods:dateIssued>

<mods:publisher>Forest Department, Ministry of Primary Industries, Malaysia</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo>

</mods:mods>

</taxonxHeader>

<taxonxBody>

<treatment rank="species">

<nomenclature>

<name>Daemonorops oligophylla</name>

<author>Becc.</author>

<citation>in Hook, f., Fl. Br. India 6 (1893) 470</citation>

<bibref>Beccari in Ann. Roy. Bot. Card. Calcutta 12 (1911) 182</bibref>

<bibref>Furtado in Gdns' Bull. Singapore 14 (1953) 132</bibref>

</nomenclature>

<div type="introduction"><p></p></div>

<div type="etymology" lang="el"><p>Oligos - few, phullon - leaf</p></div>

<div type="vernacular"><p>rotan ?</p></div>

<div type="description"><p>Clustering slender rattan. Stem without sheaths about 7 mm in diameter with sheaths to 12 mm. Sheaths armed with 3 complete reflexed collars tipped with long black horsehair-like spines and many incomplete collars armed with smaller spines. Leaves to 90 cm long including cirrus to about 30 cm long. Petiole to about 30 cm long, armed along margins with small spines and solitary reflexed claw-like spines. Leaflets about 6 on each side of the rachis arranged in 2 groups of 2 to 4 leaflets, the groups &#177; opposite. Largest leaflet to 16 cm long by 2 cm wide, armed with bristles along margins and the upper surface of mid-vein. Other parts unknown.</p></div>

<div type="distribution"><p>Perak: only known from the type locality (G. Tambang Batak) collected by Scortechini.</p></div>

<div type="biology_ecology"><p></p></div>

<div type="conservation"><p></p></div>

<div type="uses"><p>Not known.</p></div>

<div type="discussion"><p>This very slender ant rattan is known only from the type. A similar plant occurs of G. Bunga Buah in Selangor, and at Eraser's Hill in lower montane forest but there are more leaflets on each side of the rachis.</p></div>

<div type="materials_examined"><p></p></div>

</treatment>

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