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includes tree palms such as Raffia (raphia) and Metroxylon (sago palm) and shrub palms such as Salacca (salak) (Uhl & Dransfield 1987 Genera Palmarum). The climbing habit in palms is not restricted to Calamoideae, but has also evolved in three other evolutionary lines--tribes Cocoseae (Desmoncus with c. 7-10 species in the New World tropics) and Areceae (Dypsis scandens in

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