| Field notes | Solitary. Stem 9 m tall, 22 cm in diam., cylindrical, not tapering, whitish due to a wax layer; internodes 10-12 cm long, roughly parallel and horizontal. Leaves 19-22, densely arranged in a hemisphoerical crown, leaves bent towardone side; sheath 104 cm long, 26 cm wide at base, with a thick, light-brown indumentum, 10-15 apical cm appearing like a petiole, recognizable as a sheath only by marginal remains, 7.5 cm wide at apex, adaxially green, flattend, slightly raised centrally, with very sharp edges, abaxially convex, with thick buff indumentum; true petiole absent; rachis 276-290 cm long, flattened adaxially for 158-166 cm, acute thereafter, green with white indumentum toward margins, abaxially convex, green with whitish indumentum; pinnae 100-106 on each side, regularly arranged in one plane, patulae, rigid their hole length, the leaf bent to one side at apex, and therfore pinnae appearing vertical, all pinnae with yellowish to brownish indumentum below. Infructescence interfoliar; prophyll 45 cm long, 10-11 cm wide; peduncular bracts 5, inserted along 53 basal cm of peduncle, the longest one 153 cm; all with a thick, light-brown, wooly indumentum, a 6th bract ca. 5 cm long inserted 5 cm below the rachis base; peduncle 124 cm long, 2.7 cm wide, with a thick brown indumentum; rachis 120 cm long, green loke the rachillae; rachillae 92, the longest one 59 cm, born somewhat below the rachis middle, branched, the last branches of the 3rd order. Ripe fruits reddish-orange, bright, globose. Left in pasture with Iriartea deltoidea, Wettinia maynensis and Jessenia batava. Common name: ramo. |
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