| Field notes | Solitary canopy palm. Stilt roots 20, 200 cm long, 5.5 cm in diameter, with spines to 0.3 mm long. Stem 13 m long, 12 cm in diameter, smooth; Number of leaves 7; sheath closed, 146 cm long, forming a crownshaft; petiole 30 cm long; rachis 240 cm long; lamina pinnate, bushy; number of pinnae per side 17, regularly inserted, splitting up, basal pinna 60 cm long, middle pinna 104 cm long, apical pinna 35 cm long. Infructescence infrafoliar; prophyll 9 cm long, 4 cm wide; peduncular bract 26 cm long, inserted 4 cm from base, brown; peduncle 23 cm long, 5 cm thick, rachis 2 cm long, 4 cm thick; rachillae 11, 20-30 cm long. Flowers cream, sessile. HB transect no. 364, subunit no. 38 |