| Field notes | Solitary understory palm. Stem 93 cm tall, 2 cm in diameter, smooth, green; internodes 7.5 cm long. Leaves 5; leaf sheath 15 cm long, closed; petiole 25 cm long; rachis 56 cm long; lamina pinnate; pinnae 4-6 per side, more or less regularly inserted, in one single plane, basal pinna 20 cm long, middle pinna 32 cm long, apical pinna 33 cm long. Infructescence infrafoliar; peduncle 24 cm long, 0.6 cm thick, yellow-orange; rachis 5 cm long, 0.3 cm thick, yellow-orange; rachillae 11, 8-9 cm long. Fruits ellipsoid, yellow-orange. HB transect no. 399, subunit no. 9. |