• Family : ARECACEAE
  (Palm Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NARIYAL FAMILY (नारियल फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ARECACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Calamus wightii Griff.
• Vernacular name : Vetra (Sanskrit)
• Habit : Cane (Climbing)
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : May-July
• Collector(s) Name : T.P.Ramamoorthy & K.N.Gandhi
• Collection Nos : HFP 2668
• Collection Locality : Kagenari, Shiradi Ghat (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southwest India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Chithra & Balakrishnan (1989). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 3
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Calamus huegelianus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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