| Field notes | Solitary palmtree, app. 8 m tall, fruiting individuals nearby observed to 20 m tall; trunk light grey, slightly ventricose, diam. at breast heigth 22 cm; internodal length to 15 cm. Leaves 14, erect, curving and twisted subdistally so that the subapical pinnae are held in a vertical position; petiole app. 50 cm long, widering basally into a sheath, the transition being the two ill-defined; sheath only encirclig the stem at the very base; rachis 155 cm long, first flattened dorsoventrally, then narrowing gradually to laterally flattened centrally, green above and with white feltation below; pinnae 2 x 99, regularly distributed, subalternate to opposite, shining green above, with dense feltation below, insertion on rachis horseshoe shaped, central pinnae biggest to 50 x 5 cm, basalmost pinnae 51 x 0.3 cm. Number of inflorescences 5-7, long past anthesis and pendent. Visible part of peduncle 28 cm, flattened, 2.5 cm in widest diam.; sheathing floral bracts five, the three distalmost roofing the inflorescence; the longest one app. 160 cm and covered with dense grey feltation, inside brown and shiny; rachis 103 cm long, number of first order branches 97, to 50 cm long, twisted and with numerous rachillae, each branch subtended by a bract being merely a rim inserted like a turned v, rachillae twisted, 5-6 cm long, with 15-20 flowers. |
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