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Calamus

genus of palms
Taxon Taxon Q165260
Calamus
Karl Moritz Schumann / Ernst Friedrich Gilg · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
taxon
Described by source
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 13(1)[6][7]
Has list
Anexo:Especies de Calamus (planta)[15]
Homonymous taxon
Calamus, Calamus Saussure, 1862[17][18]
Parent taxon
Arecaceae[3]
Taxon common name
calamus, 省藤属, 省藤属[13][14]
Taxon name
Calamus[4]
Taxon range
Brazil[16]
Taxon rank
genus[2]
Taxon synonym
Daemonorops, Retispatha, Ceratolobus, Pogonotium, Calospatha[8][9][10][11][12]
Taxonomic type
Calamus rotang[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Calamus en Rattan palm ar نخلة متسلقة cs rotan cs rotang de Rotangpalmen es Palmijuncus es Rotang es Rotanga es Schizospatha es Zalaccella fa نخل رونده fi Calamus fi rottinkipalmut hu rattanpálma ms Rotan sega pl Kalamus ru каламус ru ротанг sv Rottingpalmssläktet
🔖 Identifiers · 42
OpenAlex ID
C2775935906
AGROVOC ID
c_1190
APNI ID
93190
African Plant Database ID
188963
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300375396
Biota of New Zealand ID
6731f699-541f-4971-acd1-01ea06fa4cb9
Catalogue of Life ID
8VVV2
EPPO Code
1CLUG
Encyclopedia of Life ID
25595
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
plant/Calamus-tree
Flora of Australia ID (new)
Calamus
Flora of China ID
105020
Show all 42 identifiers +30
Fossilworks taxon ID
35972
Freebase ID
/m/04grcp
GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)
2737242, 8494406
GRIN URL
npgsweb.ars-grin.gov
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Calamus
INaturalist taxon ID
128986
IPNI plant ID
325996-2
IRMNG ID
1276824
ITIS TSN
500799
J9U entity ID
987007293763905171
Jewish Encyclopedia ID
3912
MeSH descriptor ID
D031081
MeSH tree code
B01.875.800.575.912.250.093.188
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2775935906
NCBI taxonomy ID
4711
NL CR AUT ID
ph1134415
New Zealand Organisms Register ID
dccb4cff-d202-40b8-abc9-43c50519a155
Open Tree of Life ID
452625
Plants of the World Online ID
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:325996-2
Queensland Biota ID
15558
ScienceDirect topic ID
agricultural-and-biological-sciences/calamus
Tela Botanica ID
98596
Topic's main category
Category:Calamus (palm)
Tropicos ID
40034402
UBio ID
5868829
UMLS CUI
C0997261
UNII
H4IW20353C
USDA PLANTS ID
CALAM5
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
12607059-n, 12607260-n
World Flora Online ID
wfo-4000005953

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🔗 Connections
← Parent taxon 354
Calamus rotang, Calamus draco, Calamus tenuis, Calamus viminalis, Calamus australis, Calamus erectus, Calamus gibbsianus, Calamus manan +346 more
Taxon synonym 4
Daemonorops, Ceratolobus, Pogonotium, Calospatha
← Taxon synonym of 2
Daemonorops, Ceratolobus
Homonymous taxon 1
Calamus
Instance of 1
taxon
Taxon range 1
Brazil
Taxon rank 1
genus
Taxonomic type 1
Calamus rotang
Topic's main category 1
Category:Calamus (palm)
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Calamus (palm)
← Different from 1
Calamus
← Homonymous taxon 1
Calamus
← Nomenclatural type of 1
Calamus rotang
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Summary

Calamus is a taxon[1].

Related Entities

Brazil

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . International Plant Names Index. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 13(1). wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish Encyclopedia ID → 3912
    "Created claim: Jewish Encyclopedia ID: 3912, Matched to CALAMUS (#167476642) in Jewish Encyclopedia #mix'"
  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon range → Brazil
    Parent taxon → Arecaceae
    Taxon rank → genus
    Instance of → taxon
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007293763905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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