| Field notes | Solitary canopy palm. Stem 8 m tall, 27 cm in diameter, with "spines" from old leaf bases. Number of leaves 15; leaf sheath more than 120 cm long; petiole absent; rachis 750 cm long; number of pinnae 198 per side, regularly inserted, in one single plane, basal pinna 124 cm long, middle pinna 114 cm long, apical pinna 42 cm long. Infructescence interfoliar; peduncular bract more than 125 cm long, brown, woody; peduncle more than 54 cm long, 4.2 cm wide; rachis 46 cm long, 8 cm wide. Number of fruits aprox. 300, each fruit brown, 10 x 5 cm. HB transect no. 371, outside subunit no. 23 |