| Field notes | Solitary. Stem to 1.5 m tall, erect or bending, ca. 1 cm in diam., brown, smooth, very hard; internodes 1-1.5 cm apart, nodes consicuous rings. Leaves 6-9, erect and arching, entire og irregularly divided in 2 segments per side. Inflorescence buds erect, with prophyll and 1 peduncular bract. Inflorescence interfoliar, arching, green; infructescence becoming infrafoliar, recurved, red. Inflorescence only branches; rachillae 3-4, strict, slightly curving, with flowers in 8/3 spiral, with three lines of white indument. Immature fruits ovate-acute, green, 8 x 6 mm |