| Field notes | Dense stands along river (white water with many inlets of black water). Trunk to 3 or 4 m high, hanging over the river, about 3 cm in diam, heavily armed with spines. Crown of about 10 leaves; sheath heavily armed with spines; petiole 55 cm long, slightly channeled at the base, round below the blade, heavily armed with spines; blade 140 x 80 cm conspicuously plane,with 34 pinnae on each side. Inflorescence with persistent spiny spathe, intrafoliar, divided in 2 sausage shaped segment to 10 cm long and 5 cm wide with the fruits densely inserted; fruits green turning dark purple, exocarp leathery, mesocarp juicy fleshy first acid then sweet, endocarp a thin dark brown layer, endosperm hard, white, slightly oily. |
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