| Field notes | Terra firme. Trunk on cone of many cylindrical proproots, each about 4 cm in diam, brown, witt app. 28 rows of spines with white bulbous base and black pointed tip. Trunk 14 cm in diam through out, smooth. Proproot cone 40 cm high, 50 cm wide. Crown of 8 reflexed fronds on 150 cm long crownshaft, rachis 340 cm long, lamina with 32 pinnae on each side, the basal ones 50 cm long, middle ones 110 cm long, lower margin of pinnae smooth, upper margin toothed, all pinnae in one plane (frond not 3-dimensionelInflorescences 4 mature just below crownshaft, and several imatture in small horisontal rows. Each inflorescence with 2-4 cylindrical hairy parts |
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