| Field notes | Palmtree in dense group of 7 of which 5 is bearing fruits. A lot of seedlings at base of group. Leafbases persistend, and the stem only visible at the basalmost 70 cm which is green, glabourous with fibrous remenicences of the leafbases internodes to 8 cm long. Nodes encircling the stem. Stem 180 cm long mesured from base to lowermost green leaf. Diam at base 8 cm. Leafsheat + petiole 96 cm, hard to distinguish.. Leafsheat encircling the stem for 8 cm, at base beige, glabrous, green apically. Margin splitting up in a 50 cm long brown, fibrous and wollen mess. Crosssection concave stright. Rachis 380 cm long, the basalmost 150 cm with a flotterd ridge, mrest shabed seen from adaxial side. On most leafs rachis is turning, making the apicalmost 1/3 of lamina vertical. No of pinnae 2 x 68 + 1, regularly distributed, exept for minor displacements making pinnae altenated on the basalmost 102 cm of rachis and the rest opposite. Pinnae are insuted in one plane. Largest pinnae (middle of lamina) 51 X 4.4 cm green and glabourus adaxially, abaxially with brown pubescence. No of infructescence 6 nearly mature + 1 bud below each leafsheath. The lowermost remenicence of infructescence is found 90 cm above the base. Prophyll, bicarinate, 29 cm long, 6 cm broad, encircling the peduncle for 25 cm, splitting up irregulary, beige to black apically, inserted 3.5 cm above the base. 1 sheating bracht,; bicarinate on young infructescence, inserted 20 cm above the prophyl, 22 cm long, black, splitting up the base. Peduncle 32 cm long, ovate, diam apically 4.1 X 2.4 cm, yellow to beige. Apical part of peduncle with 15 sterile brachts, leather -like, beige to brown, ovate with a pointed apex 5.3 X 3.1 cm. No of fruits 18. |
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