| Locality | Dept. Huanuco, region of Pucallpa, western part of the "Sira mountains" and adjacent lowland; ca. 26 km S of Puerto Inca, next to the junction of the Rio Pachitea and Rio Yuyapichis, biological field station "Panguana"; Primary lowland rain forest with some xeromorphic elements, partly low, partly disturbed by local agriculture and logging. Soils: white sands or brown latosols with rocky outcrops. |
| Field notes | Habit: short stemmed palm of the understory, up to 1.5m.heigth. stem: 10-40cm length, +/- 2cm in diameter, densly covered with adventitous aerial roots; nodes very close, the last ones still with dry leafsheaths. leaves: +/- 7-10 leaves; total length +/- 100-140cm; sheaths: short, basally surrounding half the stem, distally splitting into fibres; petiole: 50-70cm long, green; rachis: 40-60cm long, green, bearing +/- 8-16 irregularely arranged pinnae. inflorescence/infructescence: single, interfoliar, erect, spicate, monoeceous, protandrous; peduncle: up to 50cm long, dorsiventrally flattened, green, distally changing to purple before anthesis; bearing 2 peduncular bracts (15-25cm long) + 1- 4 more bracts; spike: not thicker than the peduncle, 15-20cm long, with a 0.5-2cm long sterile tip; green in budstage, before anthesis changing to purple; flowers: triads sunken in pits; male flowers with brownish perianth and white stamina, female ones with purple-brown perianth and white staminodia and stigmas; fruit: green when yet mature but changing to black-violet then; mature fruit 6-7mm in diameter without stigmatic remain but with persisting dry, brown perianth; endocarp thin but woody, 5.5-6mm. Note: Specimens referred to this number have been collected from different individuals of one population! |
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