| Field notes | Stem solitary, more or less 8 m tall, 35 cm diam, at the apex covered by persistent leaf sheaths. Leaves about 17; sheath 1.7 cm long, without fibres on the margins; petiole absent; pinnae regurlarly arranged, but spreading in slightly differents planes. Inflorescence interfoliar, pistillate inflorescence club shaped, rachilla 50 cm long x 18 cm wide, covered with very short rachillae; fruits densely clustered in the inflorescence; fruits prismatic, 11 cm long, 5 cm diam; endocarp with clustered fibers; seeds 1-3 |