| Field notes | Solitary 3 m tall palm tree, fruiting. Number of leaves in crown 60-70; old leaf bases persistent to the ground, with spiny remnants of petioles pointing upwards; leaf sheath 40-50 cm long, open, blackish to green distally; leaf petiole 190-200 cm, with up to 2 cm long spines , these being straight to slightly recurved and blackish. Leaf blade broadly egg-shaped to rounded, 210 cm long and ca. 200 cm wide, dark green, shiny above, bluish-green below, with 5-6 additional wawes; lobes 96-100, basal one to 90 cm long, apical ones to 50 cm long. Infructescences about 8, branched to 4th order basally; peduncle about 50 cm long rachis; prophyll bicarinate, about 30 cm long, brown chartaceous; rachis about 110 cm long, with 1st order branches 7; the 4th and 5th ones from the base wilted, basal 1st order branch 80-85 cm long, subtended by about 50 cm long rachis bract, this being tubular for ca. 30 cm and splitting irregularly and more or less cleanly; 2nd order branches per 1st order branch up to 26; 3rd order branches per 2nd order branch up to 26; archillae up to 22 cm long basally, deceasing in size towards the apices, all rachis branches greenish orange, glabrous; fruit pedicel 0.4 mm long. Fruits immature, obovate, 1.5 x 1.2, lustrous glaucous green. |
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