Calamus megalocarpus (Burret) W.J.Baker, 2015

Baker, William J., 2015, A revised delimitation of the rattan genus Calamus (Arecaceae), Phytotaxa 197 (2), pp. 139-152 : 146

Calamus megalocarpus (Burret) W.J.Baker , comb. nov.

Daemonorops megalocarpa Burret, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 194 (1940).

Calamus melanochaetes (Blume) Miq., Verh. Kon. Akad. Wetensch., Afd. Natuurk. 11(5): 28 (1868). Daemonorops melanochaetes Blume in J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg. 7: 1333 (1830).

Daemonorops ornata W.Bull, Gard. Chron. , n.s., 3: 523 (1875).

Daemonorops melanochaetes var. depressiglobus Teijsm. & Binn. ex Becc., Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 12(1): 50 (1911). Daemonorops melanochaetes var. macrocarpus Becc., Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 12(1): 49 (1911).

Daemonorops melanochaetes var. macrocymbus Becc., Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 12(1): 49 (1911).

Daemonorops melanochaetes var. microcarpus Teijsm. & Binn. ex Becc., Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 12(1): 48 (1911). Daemonorops melanochaetes var. padangensis Becc., Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 12(1): 49 (1911).

Daemonorops aruensis Becc., Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 12(1): 50 (1911), synon. nov.

Daemonorops javanica Furtado, Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 9: 170 (1937).

Note:— Daemonorops aruensis Beccari (1911: 50) was described from a collection made by Moseley on the Challenger expedition. The type material at Kew indicates some uncertainty in its origins, stating that it was “apparently” collected in the Aru Islands in 1874. The presence of a species from Daemonorops section Daemonorops in that area seems unlikely, as other members of this section are largely restricted to the west of Wallace’s Line. The material corresponds closely to this more widespread west Malesian species, as acknowledged in the protologue and in annotations on the type by Beccari, and is thus synonymised here.