| Field notes | Solitary tree. Stilt-roots ca. 25, reaching 2 m length, 5-7 cm in diam., brown, smooth, but covered with prickly lenticels. Stem 10 cm long, 13 cm wide basally to 11 cm apically, internodes 23 cm basally to 11 cm apically, smooth, brown immediately below the crown shaft, otherwise densely covered with lichens. Leaves 7 (+1 sword); leaf-base 150 cm long, 39 cm wide basally, sheathing for the first 140 cm, thus forming a crown shaft, fleshy, green with a whitish dew, crown shaft swollen from developing buds; petiole 43 cm long, 3 cm wide, round in cross sections; rachis 280 cm long, green and smooth. Blade 280 cm long, 130 cm wide, elliptic; pinnae 2 x 18, reduplicate inserted at different angles on the rachis, split to the base, aggregated in groups, not plicate, 63 cm long basally, 80 cm long in the middle, dark green above, light green below, major veins with yellow indument. Inflorescence bud borne inside the crown shaft, 60 cm long, 6 cm wide basally, 10 cm wide in the middle, apex acute to acuminate; prophyll 20 cm long, red, sparsely pilose; peduncular bracts 5, red, exposed parts with adpressed whitish pubescence. Inflorescences 3, infrafoliar, found immediately below the crownshaft, upright; prophyll 11 cm long, persistent; peduncular bracts 6, the lowermost 3 persistent, spatulate, coriaceous; peduncle flattened, 35 cm long, 4.5 cm wide, yellow, smooth basally, apically with a yellowish indument; rachis 21 cm long, yellow with yellowish indument; rachillae 12, evenly distributed along the rachis, 70 x 2 cm and flattened basally, 35 x 1 cm and rounded apically, somewhat twining when old. Fruits evenly dispersed along the rachillae, 2.5 x 1.7 cm, irregularly obovate, green. Use: Timber for housebuilding (floors, posts etc.). Fruits not edible, according to Maclovio Anapa & Vicente Tapuyo. Dupl.: AAU, QCA, QCNE. |
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