| Field notes | Canopy palm. Trunk 10 m, heavily loaded with epiphytes and mosses. Cbh 30 cm. No visible leaf scars. No stilt roots. Leaves pinnate. 50 cm long. With fibrous edges in distal parts. Petiole 34 cm long. Rachis 215 cm. Pinnae dull light green on abaxial side. Reduplicate. Central pinnae 60 cm long, 4.5 cm wide. 52 pinnae on each side of rachis. Sometimes in groups in the central parts of rachis, otherwise regularly spaced. Infructescence peduncle flattened, 7 cm long, 3-5 cm wide. Rachis 7 cm long. Branched to 1st order. More than 50 branches, 45-50 cm long, of yellow-green colour basally, but red for most of their length. Immature fruits green. 2.5 cm long, 1.8 cm wide. Large white, semi-solid endosperm. Vernacular name: Shimbi (Shuar) Uses: Heart and fruits edible. Leaves used for thatch and to make decorations. Leaf petiole and rachis used to make fish traps, darts and baskets. Trunk used to make spears. |
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