| Locality | Dept. Huanuco, Prov. Pachitea, 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: rhizomatous dwarf palm of the understory of 40-50cm heigth. leaves: +/- 7-10 leaves; total length up to 80cm, usually trijugate, rarely splitting into more leaflets; sheaths: short, basally surrounding half the stem, distally splitting into fibres; petiole: up to 60cm long, green; rachis: 12-15cm long, green. Inflorescence/infructescence: single, interfoliar, erect, spicate, monoeceous, protandrous; peduncle: up to 35cm long, dorsiventrally flattened, thin, green, bearing 2 peduncular bracts (5-10cm long); spike: 5-6cm long, markedly thicker than the peduncle, with a 0.5cm long sterile tip, green at anthesis; flowers: triads sunken in pits; male flowers with (yellowish-)green perianth and white stamina, female ones with green perianth and white staminodia and stigmas; fruit: mature fruit 6-7mm in diameter without stigmatic remain but with persisting dry, brown perianth; endocarp thin but woody, 5.5-6mm; black-violet, contrasting to the then orange peduncle and spike. |
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