| Field notes | Solitary. Acaulescent or with a short subterrranean stem to 8 cm, 4 cm diam, with numerous adventitious roots. Leaves 12; sheath of lower leaf 10 cm, open to base; petiole 19 cm, rounded below, with a shallow groove above; rachis 75 cm; pinnae 3 per side, basal pinna 30 x 5 cm, decurrent for 30 cm, middle pinna 32 x 7 cm, apical pinna 25 9 cm. Infructescence interfoliar, erect, spicate; prophyll fibrously decaying; peduncular bract fibrously decaying, ca. 25 cm, inserted just above prophyll; peduncle 39 cm, 0.4 cm wide, flat, orange; rachis 16 cm, 1 cm wide, orange, with an acute apex; fruits globose, 0.6 cm diam, orange immature? |
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