| Field notes | Solitary palm about 5 m tall, the dominant species on the location. Stem diameter ca. 20 cm, clean and grey brown. Crown consisting of about 60 leaves. Leaf base and sheath fibrous, chocolate brown, the upper margins prolonged into a triangular ligulelike structure. Petiole orange, triangular in cross section, 130 cm long, armed along the margins with spines. Blade regularly split into single fold segments, outer segment 65 cm long, out of which 6 cm are connected to the neighbouring segment, the midblade segment is 94 cm out of which 63 cm are connected to the neighbouring segments (in the blade of leaf b the measures are 69-5 and 105-65 and in leaf c the measures are 51-5 and 94-56). Each fold is divided at the tip into two hanging 5-13 cm long laciniae. One interfoliar infructescence, 170 cm long, with green immature fruits collected, branching to 4 orders and bearing 6 partial infructescences out of which only the first 3 have developed fruits, the following three have withered before fruits developed. Prophyll is also partly withered. Length of segments between the 3 partial infructescences is 24, 25 and 27 cm, starting from the basal one. Rachis bracts keeled near the base, dark brown. Rachis and rachillae orange |
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