| Field notes | Caespitose tree in clumps of 4-6 trees. Trunk 18 m high, 11 cm in diam at base, 9 cm in diam, grey, smooth. Crown of 7 spreading leaves; sheath part enclosing trunk about 20 cm, sheathpart which is open and diverging from trunk 100 cm long; petiole prober? 20 cm long, round in cross-section; blade palmeately divided, when fully expanded covering 0.75 of a circle (the open part at the petiole), 96 segments, 110 cm long from base to apex 200 cm wide. Inflorescences originating in the axils of all the leaves, the lower one expanded with a mau? branch 120 cm long and the side branches to 30 cm long. |
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