| Field notes | Cespitose, growing in clumps of 6-8 stems, with numerous suckers at base or solitary. Stem up to 5 m tsll, 4 cm diam, internodes 3 cm on the upper part of the stem, light brown; the upper 70 cm of the stem covered with dead leafsheaths. Leaves 5; sheath 31 cm, open to the base, fibrous at margins forming a reticulate pattern, b/w photo after Aiphanes ph.; petiole ca. 10 cm, rounded below, flat above, dark red; rachis 62 cm, ridged above; pinnae 18 per side, 1-4 veined; strongly plicate; lower pinnae 28 x 3 cm, middle pinnae 35 x 4 cm, apical pinnae 26 x 2 cm. Inflorescence buds infrafoliar, protruding through the lower part of the supporting leafsheath, which splits dorsally and thus function as and extra protection of the inflorescence bud; prophyll 14 cm long, 5 cm wide, flat with two distinct margins above, rounded below, the wide margins forms a flat apically, woody, striate, often persistant in the aéarly stages of inflorescence development; peduncular bract 10-11 cm long, 5 cm wide, inserted ca. 1 cm above the prophyll, completely enclosed in the prophyll; rachillae much folded and twisted within the bracts, yellowish green, later becoming clear green. Inflorescences 1-2, infrafoliar; prophyll "woody", striate ca. 10 cm long; peduncular bract not seen, inserted 2 cm above the prophyll; peduncle 12 cm, 2 cm wide; rachis 42 cm long; 1. order rachillae 15, the 6 simple; lower 1. order rachillae 31 cm, with 10 2. order rachillae, the upper 3 simple; 3. order rachillae ca. 14 cm long, 0.6 cm wide, green. Palm growing in recently burned forest. Proably capable of regenerating after a fire. Buds apparently protected by the leafsheaths. |
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