| Field notes | Stem to 5m, 6 - 7 cm diam., light brown, internodes 3 cm. Leaves 15; sheath to 30 cm, open to base, margins fibrous forming a reticulate net; petiole to 75 cm, rounded below, flat above with sharp edges; rachis 170 cm; pinnae 34 per side, 1 - 3 veined, basal pinnae 65 X 6 cm, middle pinnae 62 X 2 cm, apical pinnae 36 X 4.5 cm. Inflorescence interfoliar, to 3 times branched; prophyll 29 X 4 cm, more or less persistent during anthesis, fibrously decaying; peduncular bract 23 cm, inserted 5 cm above prophyll, fibrously decaying as the prophyll; peduncle 32 cm, 3 cm wide, flattened, yellow; rachis 57 cm; 1. order rachillae 32, upper 16 simple, these 15 cm, 0.4 cm wide, lower 1. order rachillae 29 cm, pedunculate for 12 cm, with 19 2. order rachillae, the upper 17 simple, these to 20 cm, 0.4 cm wide, lower 2. order rachillae 4 cm with up to 5 3. order rachillae, middle 1. order rachillae 13 cm, pedunculate for 5 cm with 12 2. order rachillae, these 20 cm, 0.4 cm wide, all rachillae light green. |
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