| Locality | 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: monoeceous clustered (1-5 stems) palm of the understory of 1.5-4m heigth. stem: up to 3m long, 20-25mm in diameter; internodes 3.5-7.5cm long. leaves: +/- 6 leaves; total length +/- 160cm, usually trijugate but older leaves splitting their pinnae into various; sheaths: green, +/- 30cm long, tubular, totally enclosing the stem; petiole: +/- 25-40cm long, green; rachis: +/- 70cm long, green; inflorescence/infructescence: single, infrafoliar, monoeceous, +/- horizontal with stiff spreading rachillae, branched to 1st order; peduncle: greenish-white, 5-7cm long, bearing prophyll (brown, deciduous, 10-12cm long) and 1st peduncular bract (light brown, deciduous, +/- 30cm long); rachis: 7-9cm long, white, bearing 13-18 white rachillae, +/20cm long; flowers: in triads, these widely spaced and spirally arranged on the rachillae, the terminal 1/6 with male flowers only; male flowers with greenish-white perianth, stamina and pistillode white, female ones whitish, stigmas hyaline; fruit: mature fruit violet-black, 12x5mm, with a basal stigmatic remain, peduncle, rachis and rachillae of the infructescence light purple |
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