| Field notes | Solitary midstory palm. Stem 287 cm tall, 17 cm in diameter, with protrusions from rests of leaf sheaths. Leaves 13; leaf sheath more than 165 cm long, open, with black, flattened spines to 10 cm long; rachis 490 cm long; lamina pinnate; pinnae 113 per side, regularly inserted, in one single plane. Inflorescence interfoliar; peduncular bract more than 113 cm long, inserted more than 20 cm from base, brown, covered by short brown spines; peduncle more than 73 cm long, 4 cm thick, cream; rachis 46 cm long, 5 cm thick, cream; rachillae 9-11 cm long. HB transect no. 395, subunit 3 |