Calamus vitiensis

Calamus vitiensis, commonly known as the Dunk Island lawyer vine, solitary lawyer vine or Mission Beach wait-a-while, is a climbing palm in the family Arecaceae. It is found from the Maluku Islands east through New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to Fiji and Vanuatu, and south to Queensland, Australia. It is a solitary palm with a stem diameter up to. The leaves have 25–40 leaflets and the midrib extends into a barbed cirrus up to long. It grows in lowland rainforest up to about. It was first described in 1908.

Conservation

This species is listed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science as least concern under its Nature Conservation Act legislation., it has not been assessed by the IUCN.