Johor Ethnobotany Database
Oncosperma horridum (Griff.) Scheff.
Common name: Bayas
Family: Arecaceae
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Genus: Oncosperma
Species: Oncosperma horridum (Griff.) Scheff.
Growth Form: It is a slender palm that grows in clusters of 4–6 stems or more, and has very dense crowns. Its stem can grow up to 20 m tall, and is covered with black prickles.
Foliage: It produces pinnate leaves, whose leaflets are arranged closely and neatly on both sides of the rachis, like the teeth of a comb.
Flowers: Its spirally arranged flowers are unisexual, and develop on up to 61 cm-long flowering shoots.
Fruits: Its fleshy fruits are round, slightly flattened, waxy, black, one-seeded, and 1.5–1.8 cm across, with finely pimpled surfaces. Its seeds are round
Discription
Ethnobotanical uses
Taxonomic classification
Habitat
Valleys or hill slopes in rainforests at elevations up to 1,500 meters with their crowns sometimes reaching up to the canopy of the rainforest
Habit
Palm
Non-medicinal uses:
As food
