| 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 Yayapichis, 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: clustering scandent palm (8 stems) of the understory of a height of 5 m (but up to 8m). Stem: up to 10 m lenght, 5 mm in diameter; internodes +/- 25 cm long. Leaves: remaining on the stem, only in very old stems basally deciduous; total lenght +/- 100 cm; sheaths: green, with some spines distally, tubular, totally enclosing the stem, 22 - 30 cm + a 9 - 13 cm long tube above the petiole; petiole +/- 4 cm long, abaxially keeled; rachis: green, with some hooklike spines, 70 - 80 cm long with 7 - 8 pairs of +/- opposite leaflets and 4 - 5 acanthophylls. Influrescence/infrutescence: single, interfoliar, pendulous, branched to 1st order, monoecious, protogynous; peduncle: green, 40 - 60 cm long, bearing prophyll and 1st peduncular bract (green, at anthesis brownish or yellowish, armed with black spines); rachis: green, 10 - 20 cm, bearing 8 - 12 spirally arranged green rachillae, 7 - 12 cm long; flowers: female and male flowers whitish, basally arranged in triads, the distal 1/3 of the rachillae only with paired or single male flowers; fruit: ovoid, green, mature ones red, +/- 13x9mm; endocarp woody with 3 germ-pores, +/- 10x7mm. |
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