| Field notes | Colonial midstory palm. Stem 150 cm tall, 3 cm in diameter; internodes 7 cm long, covered by old leaf bases. Number of leaves 7; leaf sheath 35 cm long, closed; petiole 62 cm long, margined; rachis 144 cm long; lamina pinnate, pinnae regularly inserted, in one single plane, basal pinna 37 cm long, middle pinna 42 cm long, apical pinna 20 cm long; sheath, petiole, rachis and pinnae with dark brown spines. Infructescence interfoliar; prophyll 17 cm long, 1.3 cm wide; peduncular bract 30 cm long, inserted 7 cm from base, woody, brown with black spines; peduncle 24 cm long, 1 cm wide; rachis absent; rachillae 1, 7 cm long. Number of fruits aprox. 60. HB transect no. 387, subunit 1 |