| Locality | Dept. Huanuco, region of Pacullpa, western part of the "Sira mountains" and adjacent lowland; ca. 26 km S of Puerto Inca, nest to the junction of the Rio Pachitea and Rio Yuyapichis, biologicalfield 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: "acaulescent" palm of the understory of 100-150-(180)cm heigth. leaves: +/- 4-7 leaves; total length +/- 140-180-(120)cm, trijugate, rarely splitting into more leaflets; sheaths: short, basally surrounding half the stembase, distally splitting into fibres; petiole: +/- 60-80- (100) cm long, green; rachis: 50-60- (100) cm long, green inflorescence/infructescence: single, interfoliar, erect, spicate, monoeceous, protandrous; peduncle: at anthesis 80-100cm long, dorsiventrally flattened, green, bearing 2 peduncular bracts (+/- 10 resp. +/- 25cm long); spike: (10)-15-20-(25)cm long, markedly thicker than the peduncle, with a 0.5-1.5cm long sterile tip, green at anthesis; flowers: triads sunken in pits; male flowers with green perianth and white stamina, female ones with green perianth and white staminodia and stigmas; fruit: mature fruit 7-8mm in diameter without stigmatic remain but with persisting dry, brown perianth; endocarp thin but woody, 6-7mm; black-violet, contrasting to the then orange-red peduncle and spike. Note: Specimens referred to this number have been collected from different individuals of one population |
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