| Field notes | Caespitose with up to 10 stems Stem 2 m, 7 cm diam., white, armed with spines to 8 cm in bands just below the nodes; internodes 8 cm. Leaves 8, spreading; sheath 46 cm, spiny, upper 16 cm bending away from stem; petiole 3 cm; rachis 140 cm, spiny; pinnae 60 per side, in groups of 4-10, in several planes, narrowly cuneate, abruptly widening just below apex, below with up to 3 spines on midrib, these to 3 cm, basal pinnae 17 x 1 cm, middle pinnae 31 x 7 cm, apical pinnae 14 x 16 cm. Inflorescence bud 61 cm, 3 cm diam., erect. Inflorescence at staminate anthesis; prophyll 25 cm, 3 cm wide; peduncular bract 87 cm, 4 cm wide, erect, white tomentose abaxially; peduncle 43 cm; rachis 42 cm; rachillae 41, lower 29 cm, upper 6 cm; staminate flowers yellow. Inflorescence past pistillate anthesis interfoliar; prophyll 20 x 2 cm; peduncular bract 97 cm, upper past flattened, 4 cm wide, hanging down; peduncle 61 cm, rachis 39 cm; rachillae 45, lower 22 cm, upper 20 cm, wilting. Infructescence in the axil of a wilted leaf; prophyll 19 x 3 cm, peduncular bract 65 x 1.5 cm; peduncle 60 cm, 1.5 cm diam.; rachis 25 cm; rachillae 32, the upper 14 wilted with no fruits, lower to 23 cm; immature fruits globose, green, 2 cm diam. |
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