| Field notes | Solitary tree, often left behind when forest is cleared. The base with an inverted cone of adventitious roots; cone ca 40 cm wide, 50 cm high; roots spiny. Trunk 11 m tall, 13 cm in diam, smooth, brown. Crown of 7 spreading leaves; crownshaft 150 cm long; petiole 10 cm long, channeled above; blade 430 x 160 cm with 38 pinnae on each side. Inflorescences 3 expanded and 2 small ones still enclosed in the spathes, inserted at the nodes immediately below the crown; peduncle ca 25 cm long, rachis 6 cm long, sidebranches 5, when mature shaped like short sansages? ca 15 x 10 cm with densely inserted hairy fruits; spathe 6, the 3 basal ones persisting as sheaths around the peduncle, the 3 apical ones with expanded part that enclosed the immature fruits, these also persisting throughout the fruiting stage. Uses: Leaves for thatching houses, trunk for poles for houseconstruction and made into planks for walls and floors. Information by Carlos Patricio Angora, a 17 years old shuara man. |
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