Calamus nicobaricus Becc. (1892:446)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Calamus pseudorivalis Becc. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 11(1): 222 (1908)
Regarded as a synonym of C. pseudorivalis by (Sreekumar & Henderson, 2014), but accepted by (POWO, 2024).
Conservation Status
Possibly Extinct or Possibly Extinct in the wild (ex situ status uncertain) (Sreekumar & Hareesh, 2013; Senthilkumar et al., 2014) or Invalid (synonym) (Sreekumar & Henderson, 2014)
Not found in the wild in recent surveys (2010's) (Sreekumar & Hareesh, 2013; Senthilkumar et al., 2014), prior to the species' taxonomic status being questioned (Sreekumar & Henderson, 2014; contra POWO, 2024).
Distribution
Nicobar Islands, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Henderson, A. (2009). Palms of Southern Asia: 1-197. Princeton university press, Princeton and Oxford.
POWO. (2024). Calamus nicobaricus Becc. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 8 February 2024]
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Senthilkumar, U., Choudhary, R. K., Sanjappa, M., Narasimhan, D., Shaanker, R. Uma and Ravikanth, G. (2014). Livelihood and Revenue: Role of rattans among Mongoloid tribes and settlers of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India. Ethnobotany Research & Applications 12: 141-154. [automatic download]
Sreekumar, V. B. and Hareesh, V. S. (2013). Diversity, endemism and conservation of Indian palms, pp. 36-38. In: Proceedings of the 25th Kerala Science Congress.
Sreekumar, V. B. and Henderson, Andrew. (2014). Nomenclatural notes on Indian Calamus (Arecaceae). Phytotaxa 166(2): 145-149. [Abstract]
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp. [p. 731]