Korthalsia scaphigeroides Becc., Philipp. J. Sci., C 4: 619 (1909)

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Map uses TDWG level 3 distributions (https://github.com/tdwg/wgsrpd)

Philippines present (World Checklist of Arecaceae)B

Mindanao (Agusan, Surigao, Zamboanga), Basilan. Endemic. (de Guzman, E.D. & Fernando, E.S. 1986: Guide to Philippine Flora and Fauna. Vol. IV.)A

Growing in primary forests at low altitudes. (de Guzman, E.D. & Fernando, E.S. 1986: Guide to Philippine Flora and Fauna. Vol. IV.)A

Indeterminate. (de Guzman, E.D. & Fernando, E.S. 1986: Guide to Philippine Flora and Fauna. Vol. IV.)A

Ant Palm (Engl.); Kaporigid (Pil.). (de Guzman, E.D. & Fernando, E.S. 1986: Guide to Philippine Flora and Fauna. Vol. IV.)A

It can be used as those of Daemonorops and Calamus in furniture and basket making. (de Guzman, E.D. & Fernando, E.S. 1986: Guide to Philippine Flora and Fauna. Vol. IV.)A

Rather slender, the sheathed stem apparently 15-18 mm in diameter. Ochrea elongate-elliptic, ventricose 9 to 10 cm long, 2 cm broad, thinly coriaceous, armed with small scattered, short, rigid prickles. Leaves with a slender biconvex, flattened petiolar part, about 20 cm long, 4 mm broad, with rather obtuse and smooth edges, armed claws, rachis in the intermediate portion armed almost regularly with ternate claws, leaflets distinctly ansate, narrowly rhomboid-cuneate, broadest above their middle, 15 to 20 cm long, 4 to 5 cm broad, rather accurately praemorse-dentate in the upper margins and produced at the summit into an acuminate point, green above, white beneath, with about 7 primary costae. Spadix unknown. The leaf-sheaths of this palm is interestingly inhabited by colonies of ants. The seeds, so far, is the means of its propagation. (de Guzman, E.D. & Fernando, E.S. 1986: Guide to Philippine Flora and Fauna. Vol. IV.)A

A. de Guzman, E.D. & Fernando, E.S. 1986: Guide to Philippine Flora and Fauna. Vol. IV.

B. World Checklist of Arecaceae