| Field notes | Solitary palm, 3.5 m tall. Stem 80 cm long, diam 5.5-5.6 cm, rough from prominent leaf scars, basal 19 cm with numerous adventitous roots; internodes to 1 cm long with few black spines, to 2 cm long, pointing straight outward and downward; Ieaves 15; sheath 45 long, abaxial side olive green, heavily armed with black spines to 5.5 cm, adaxial side brown, glabrous; petiole 96 cm long, 1.2 cm in diameter, with few black spines 2-7 cm long; rachis 2 m long, olive green, abaxially with brown pubescence, on young leaves with few flack spines, to 4 cm long; pinnae 24-25 per side, inserted in groups of l-2-2-2-3-2-3-3-7, measured from base to apex, inserted in different directions, spanning about 30°. Infructescence interfoliar; prophyll bicarinate, 11.5 cm long, 4.8 cm wide; bract inserted 4 cm above the prophyll, 21 cm long, largest circumference (at the middle) 14 cm, outside densely covered with black spines, to 0.7 cm long, inside glabrous, brown; peduncle 13 cm long, yellow with minute, black, appressed spines; rachis 8 cm long, yellow; rachillae 30, basal rachilla (the longest) 6 cm long. Fruits 1.5 cm in diam, nearly globular with a minute pointed apex, orange-red, towards the apex with somewhat curled, 3 mm long spines According to Maximilliano CoX, Nueva Rocafuerte this palm has no uses With alcohol-conserved material. |
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