| Locality | Prefecture Fenoarivo Atsinanana, Sub-prectureVavatenina, Ambinany Namantoana forest, ca. 10 km south-southwest of the village Manakambahiny 1, Buffer zone no. 10 for the Zahamena strict nature reserve (Réserve Naturelle Intégrale) and the Zahamena national park, protected area with controlled extraction of forest products, closed forest with undergrowth, steep slope. |
| Field notes | Solitary tree; trunc 10 - 20 m high, straight, unarmed; diameter near crown 13 cm; internodes green, 5 cm; leaf scars clearly visible, brown, 2 - 3 cm wide; crown with 10 leaves, tristichous; leaf sheath 115 cm long, 74 cm wide, pale green with white-brown scales, pale yellow inside; petiole absent or 5 cm at most; rachis 360 cm long, pale green with scattered white-brown scales, adaxially flat near base, ridged in distal sections, abaxially round; leaves pinnate, reduplicate, 91 pinae on each side of rachis, regularly spaced at a distance of 3 cm; central pinnae 110 - 120 cm long; inflorescence pendulous, white to yellow-cream, infrafoliar, branched to 2nd order, fragile; peduncle 20 cm long, 10 cm wide; prohpyl 80 cm long, 15 cm wide, yellow with pink tinge; uses: palm heart eaten; local name Tsaravoasira |
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