| Locality | Dept. Huanuco, region Pucallpa, 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, 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: dioeceous palm of the understory og 1-3-(4.5) m heigth. Stem: green, 0.5 - 2.5 m (but up to 3.9 m lenght), +/- 14 mm in diameter; internodes 4 - 10 cm long. Leaves: +/- 4 leaves; total lenght +/- 100cm; sheaths: green, +/- 20 cm long, tubular, totally enclosing the stem; petiole: +/- 30 - 40 cm long, green; rachis: (20)-40-50 cm long, green, bearing (2)-4-8-(12) +/- alternate leaflets + a proeminent pair of end-pinnae. Inflorescence/infructescence: single, infrafoliar, +/- horizontal (peduncle), rachillae stiff, branched to 1st order, female; peduncule: green, (15)-20-30-(50) cm long, 3 - 4 mm in diameter, bearing 5 - 6 tubular, green peduncular bracts (+/- 3 - 10 cm long, persistent but drying until anthesis); rachis: +/- 4 cm long, green, bearing 3-8-(10) green rachillae, 20-30-(50) cm long; flowers: widely spaced and spirally arranged on the rachillae greenish-yellow perianth, stigmas hyaline; fruit: green, later orange and black, +/- 9x8 mm, with a basal stigmtic remain, rachis and rachillae of the infrutescence orange. Note:Specimens referred to this number have benn collected from different individuals of one population! Fruits were collected at 15 November 1989; Specimen voucher or the male plant = N° 11-5689 |
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