| Field notes | Cespitose (few stems), stems to 1.5 m, to 5 cm diam. Lvs 5-10 in crown; leaf sheath 25 cm; petiole 75 cm; lamina 100x110 cm; pinnae 3-4 per side, regularly inserted, more or less in one plane. Peduncle 26 cm; scarsely spined; rachillae 10; fruit wider than long w. juicy sacs in endocarp; pinnae sigmoid w. long, filiform, spiny apex; petiole and rachis w. brown tomentum; sheath and petiole w. few long, flat, dark brown spines, to 5 cm |