| Field notes | Cespitose understory palm with few visible roots. Stem 0.87 m tall, 0.5 cm thick, smooth, greenish cream; internodes 3.5 cm long. Leaves 6; leaf sheath 12 cm long, open; petiole 15 cm long, section round; rachis 30 cm long; lamina pinnate, 45 cm long, 28 cm wide, glabrous; pinnae 3 per side, regularly inserted; basal pinna 25 cm long, middle pinna 20 cm long, apical pinna 30 cm long. Inflorescence infrafoliar; prophyll 5 cm long, 1 cm wide, papery; peduncle 5 cm long, 0.5 cm wide. Flowers cream to brown, sunken. Transect HB140, subunit no. 011, inside transect; UTM: 20K-310972-8107948 |