- Family : ARECACEAE
(Palm Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : NARIYAL FAMILY (नारियल फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Arecaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Calamus thwaitesii Becc.
- Vernacular name :
- Handibetha (Kannada)
- Aanachooral, Pannichooral, Thadiayanchooral, Valiyachooral, Vandichooral (Malayalam)
- Habit : Cane
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Common in evergreen to Tropical semi-evergreen forests throughout Western Ghats. Cane is used in manufacture of walking-sticks and suspension bridges.
- Flower, Fruit : December-January
- Collector(s) Name : T.P.Ramamoorthy; D.H.Nicolson, T.P.Ramamoorthy, K.N.Gandhi; D.H.Nicolson, T.P.Ramamoorthy, K.N.Gandhi
- Collection Nos : HFP 1493, HFP 2833
- Collection Locality : Kempuhole, Shiradi Ghat (Hassan); Shiradi Ghat (Hassan)
- Distribution :
- Goa : South Goa district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kottayam district
- Maharashtra : Ratnagiri district
- Native : India, Sri Lanka
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Calamus thwaitesii var. canaranus. Downloaded on 27 July 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Field Image(s)
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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