| Field notes | Solitary palm, young with no stem yet, having 5 leaves; Leaf base and sheath fibrous, dark brown. Petiole green, 125 cm long, triangular in cross section, armed along the margins. Blade held stiff and flat, regularly split into singlefold segments, the outer segment 49 cm long, _ connected to the next segment, the midblade segment 69 out of which 2/3 are connected to the neighbouring segments. The segments split at the tip into two 1.5-4 cm long laciniae. Fruits collected from the mother individual, the only fertile palm in the population, surrounded by hundreds of 1-4 year old palms in the newly created clearing. This old palm is 10 m tall and has about 50 leaves in crown. The stem has a diameter of about 20 cm and is greybrown and smooth. Fruits are collected from the ground, they are ovoid and blue, up to 19 x 16 mm, but found in all sizes (many aborted and shed before maturity). Epicarp is thin, while mesocarp is 2 mm and fibrous. |
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