| 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, 110 cm long (leaf b: 170 cm; leaf c: 240cm ), armed along the margins with spines. Blade regularly split into single fold segments, outer segment 60 cm long, out of which 7 cm are connected to the neighbouring segment, the midblade segment is 117 cm out of which 75 cm are connected to the neighbouring segments (in the blade of leaf b the measures are 65-7 and 115-73 and in leaf c the measures are 55-7 og 118-75). Each fold is divided at the tip into two hanging 5-13 cm long laciniae. One interfoliar infructescence, 150 cm long, with green immature fruits collected, branching to 4 orders and bearing 10 partial infructescences. Prophyll dark brown, tubular, 2-keeled at the base, 25 cm long. Segments between the first 6 partiel infructescences 15 cm long. Rachis bracts 1-keeled at the base, dark brown. Rachis and rachilae orange. |
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