| Field notes | Midstory palm. Stem 4 m tall, 4 cm in diameter; internodes 17 cm long, with black spines to 5 cm long below nodes. Number of leaves 7; leaf sheath 19 cm long, closed; petiole 37 cm long, margined; rachis 131 cm long; lamina pinnate; pinnae 33 per side, regularly inserted, in one single plane, basal pinna 42 cm long, middle pinna 49 cm long, apical pinna 25 cm long; sheath and petiole with dark brown spines to 5 cm long. Infructescence interfoliar; prophyll 18 cm long, 2 cm wide; peduncle 24 cm long, 1 cm thick, brown; rachis absent; rachillae 2, 8 cm long. Fruits ellipsoid, sessile, black. HB transect no. 400, subunit 63. |