Korthalsia laciniosa (Griff.) Mart., Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 211 (1845)

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Widely spread all over South Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Maps 7 and 10). (Renuka, C. 1995: A Manual of the Rattans of Andaman and Nicobar Islands)A

Flowering October-November. Fruiting April - May. (Renuka, C. 1995: A Manual of the Rattans of Andaman and Nicobar Islands)A

Led beth (Renuka, C. 1995: A Manual of the Rattans of Andaman and Nicobar Islands)A

Used in furniture industry. (Renuka, C. 1995: A Manual of the Rattans of Andaman and Nicobar Islands)A

Clustering, medium diameter rattan. Stem branching, 25 m or more, with sheaths 2.1 cm in diameter,without sheaths 1.7 cm. Leaf 1.2 m long, cirrate: sheaths brown or red with very few spines to 0.6 cm long, disintegrating into embracing fibres; knee absent: ocrea very prominent, elongate, originally dry and membraneous but very soon distintegate into filaments: petiole very short: adaxial side of the rachis with two rows of spines; spines 0.7 cm long; leaflets 22 x 12 cm, equidistant, cuneate-rhomboid, irregularly toothed, dark green above, pale below, narrowed to a short petiole. Inflorescence large, twice or thrice branched; primary and secondary sheaths not tightly sheathing,distal end papery; rachilla densely tomentose; flowers arranged in longitudinal rows. Fruit widely depressed ovate, ca, 2 x 1.5 cm; scales in 13 vertical rows, orange red; endosperm ruminate. (Renuka, C. 1995: A Manual of the Rattans of Andaman and Nicobar Islands)A

Mannarghat, South Andamans, 3.4.92, fr., Vijayakumaran 6625(KFRI); 4 th Km., Little Andamans, 13.4.1992, fr., Vijayakumaran 6634 (KFRI); Great Nicobar, 10.4.93, fr., Renuka and Vijayakumaran 7041 (KFRI). (Renuka, C. 1995: A Manual of the Rattans of Andaman and Nicobar Islands)A

A. Renuka, C. 1995: A Manual of the Rattans of Andaman and Nicobar Islands