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2.5. KEY TO THE GENERA<br />

Rattans climbing by means <strong>of</strong> a cirrus armed with acanthophylls;<br />

Leaf sheath without spines; stem sometimes with conspicuous knee below leaf<br />

junction; lowermost leaflets <strong>of</strong>ten swept back across stem; leaflets variouslyshaped,<br />

<strong>of</strong>ten with praemorse apices, or leaflets entire. Inflorescence without<br />

conspicuous bracts: Eremospatha<br />

Leaf sheath armed with conspicuous spines:<br />

Ocrea triangular, not tubular drying; spines on sheath long, slender and<br />

sparsely to densely arranged, not easily detached. Inflorescence units<br />

produced simultaneously in the axils <strong>of</strong> the distal leaves (hapaxanthic).<br />

Hermarphroditic flowers in dyads, rarely triads: Laccosperma<br />

Ocrea neat, horizontal, not dry; spines on sheath short, irregularlyspaced,<br />

black or brown, triangular, easily sloughing <strong>of</strong>f. Inflorescence<br />

units, pendulous, produced in axils (pleonanthic). Monoecious flowers<br />

in clusters <strong>of</strong> 7-11: Oncocalamus<br />

Rattans climbing by means <strong>of</strong> a flagellum emerging from the leaf sheath: Calamus<br />

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