| Field notes | Many palms grow often together in palmgroves. More thorny than Kanangan Buda. Kanangan Siah has a more reddish appearence than Kanangan Buda. Many thornless orange-brown proproots, multistemmed. The collected specimen is a young individual with only two shoots and no proproots yet. 90-100 pair of leaflets. Leaves are 5-6 m. long of which 1 -1 1/2 m. is petiole. Uses: The palmshoot is eaten as a vegetable, popular. The palm is host for edible larvae. Only very seldom did the Kelabit people extract the sago, today they never do. The midnerve of the leave is used as fiber. The leaves may be used as roofing material, but this is seldom seen today. The innerpart of old proproots are used for fibre to make fishtraps - more durable than bamboo. Name in Kelabit language: Kanangan Siah. |
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