| Field notes | Solitary. Stem 8 m, 9 cm diam; internodes 4-5 cm. 6 inflorescence and 2 buds. Leaves 12; leafsheath 50 cm, open to base, yellowish green, with up to 20 cm long fibers at margins; petiole 28 cm, 2.5 cm wide, rounded below, flat with a rounded ridge above; rachis 210 cm; pinnae 18-24 per side, 1-9 veined, basal pinnae 39 x 8 cm, middle pinnae 65 x 15 cm, apical pinnae 38 x 25 cm. Inflorescence bud infrafoliar, 2; prophyll 34 cm, 12 cm wide; peduncular bract 32 cm, 12 cm wide, inserted 2 cm above prophyll, enclosed in prophyll; rachillae twisted within the bracts, yellowish green. Inflorescences 4, infrafoliar, bracts caducous; peduncle 24 cm, 3 cm wide, green with a brownish-grey tomentum; rachis 54 cm, green with a tomentum like peduncle; 1. order rachillae 17, upper 9 simple these 47 cm, 1 cm wide, green; lower 1. order rachillae 32 cm, pedunculate for 21 cm with 8 2. order rachillae, these 42 cm, 1 cm wide, green. |
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