Eremospatha
The genus Eremospatha is composed of 11 species. It consists of pleonanthic, hermaphroditic, spiny palms; most often with high-climbing, solitary or clustered stems, entire-bifid leaves when juvenile and regularly or irregularly pinnate leaves at maturity, the latter with a cirrus emerging from the rachis apex. The combination of leaf sheaths without spines and stem sometimes presenting a conspicuous knee below leaf junction is quite characteristic for this genus.
Well distributed in several countries of West Africa and the Congo basin, with outliers in Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia (Sunderland, 2012).
Eremospatha is a shade tolerant rattan palm well represented in the lowland forest, often below 1000 m.