A rattan palm; a generic term for any of several varieties of the genus Calamus; a rattan cane.
Rattan canes, consisting of a tough outer wall and soft inner pulp, banban, are split and shaved to the desired width and thickness, used in making baskets such as chicken basket, ubi; hunter's backpack, bangaw, hapē'eng; rice-fermenting basket, taggi'i; round headbasket, labba; uncooked rice basket, ulbung; winnowing basket, pallungan, and many others. They are important as tying material for basket lips, in binding house joints, tying on arrow-grass cane roof purlins, ībat, and roof thatch, cross-tie material for arrow-grass cane mats, ātag, and for many other tying purposes. Varieties of rattan, genus calamus: bugbug, damayon, ditāan, getangngan, gīwi, kulawit, litū'u, nādaw, nānga, tummad, uddin.