| Field notes | Solitary tree on flat riverbank with regrowth of Piper. The base covered in a big mound of litter from the tree and the epiphytes growing on it. Trunk 7.5 m tall, 44 cm diam. at the base, 37 cm in diam. at the top, smooth covered with epiphytes and remains of old leaves. Infrutescences 3 with friuts and 3 old ones remaining without fruits. Fruiting infructescenses inserted 140 -180 cm below the leaves. Peduncle up to prophyll 16 cm long, almost encircling the trunk at hte base, 55 cm wide, dorsiventrally flattened at the top, peduncle section from prophyll to sterile bract 10 cm long, 18 cm wide, rounded in cross section, peduncle section from sterile bract to first rachilla 4 cm long, 16 cm wide; rachis 54 cm long, 16 cm wuíde at base tapering to a blunt tip, entire peduncle and rachis poiting almost straight upwards; rachillae ca. 370, each one 130 cm with 0 -6 fruits, each fruit inserted in a cupule of 3 woody tepals, elongate, acuminate, olive green, ca. 5 x 2 cm. Prophyll 111 x 42 cm, bicarinate. Leaves standing erect, sheath and petiole not distinct, the base totally encircling the trunk but sheath split open to base; base of leaf up to first pinna 270 cm, rounded below, channeled above, margin between the two sides rounded, rachis 11 m long, 13 cm wide at base, rounded below, channeled above, pinnae originated on a flat margin to 3 cm wide between the two surfaces, middle pinna 190 cm x 16 cm, upper pinna 55 x 2 cm, basal pinnae 3m long and 1 cm wide, leafsheath with marginal 0.1 -1 cm wide hard fibers mixed with very fine woolly fibers. Pinnae 109 per side, inserted in one plane. |
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