• 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 vattayila Renuka
• Vernacular name : Devarabetha, Poojabetha (Kannada); Vattayilayan, Ottaman (Malayalam)
• Habit : Cane (Climbing)
• Comments / notes : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : May-August
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2011 - Palms of Karnataka; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 vattayila. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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