| Field notes | Caespitose palm. Stem 175 cm long, dbh 2 cm, few black spines to 2.5 cm long, below the nodes. Leaves 6, distributed over 65 cm; sheath 43 cm long; petiole 43.5 cm long; rachis 97 cm long; pinnae 15 per side, inserted in groups on the basal half of the rachis: 3 separated by 13 cm from 3 separated by 10 cm from the 9 apical pinnae which are regularly distributed, pinnae inserted in one plane except for the basal. Infructescence interfoliar; peduncle 17 cm long; peduncular bract 33 cm long; rachis 3.5 cm long; rachillae 10, 8.5-9.5 cm long. |