| Field notes | Colonial midstory palm. Stems to 2 m tall, 4 cm in diameter; internodes 12 cm long, with many black spines. Number of leaves 6; sheath closed, 44 cm long; petiole 43 cm long; rachis 147 cm long; lamina pinnate; number of pinnae per side 44, regularly inserted, in one single plane, basal pinna 52 cm long, middle pinna 55 cm long, apical pinna 35 cm long; sheath, petiole, rachis, and pinnae spiny. Inflorescence, not yet opened, interfoliar; prophyll 23 cm long, 4 cm wide; peduncular bract 30 cm long, inserted 7 cm from base, green with brown spines; peduncle 20 cm long, 2 cm in diameter; rachis absent; rachillae 1, 14 cm long. Flower buds cream. HB transect no. 373, subunit no. 71 |