| Field notes | Cespitose midstory palm, with 10 stems. Stem 11.25 m tall, 7 cm in diameter, fissured; internodes 8 cm long. Leaf sheath 53 cm long, closed, forming a 50 cm long crownshaft; petiole 23 cm long, margined; rachis 262 cm long; lamina pinnate, bushy; pinnae 70 per side, inserted in groups of 1-4, basal pinna 38 cm long, middle pinna 73 cm long, apical pinna 12 cm long. Inflorescence infrafoliar; peduncle 7 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, cream; rachis 14 cm long, 2 cm wide, cream: rachillae 65, 42-55 cm long, cream. Flowers sessile, yellow. HB transect no. 397, outside subunit no. 22. |