Calamus suaveolens - a new rattan from Sulawesi

In the course of preparing a revision of the Calamus aruensis Becc. complex (Baker et al. 2003), which consists of four cirrate species in section Phyllanthectus Furtado (1956) distributed from New Guinea into the west Pacific, we came across a small number of specimens from Sulawesi of an undescribed Calamus species that is evidently a close relative of this group. A number of other species in section Phyllanthectus that occur to the west of New Guinea have affinities with