| Field notes | Cespitose understory palm. Stem 105 cm high, 2 cm thick; internodes 5 cm long, > stem diameter, brown, smooth, covered by leaf bases. Leaves 3 per stem; sheath 5.5 cm long, open, with 1.5 cm long, black spines; petiole 43 cm long; rachis 26 cm long; lamina entire, bifid, 50 cm long, 21 cm wide, flat and hairy. Infructescence infrafoliar; prophyll 20 cm long, 2 cm wide, papery, with 2 cm long, black spines; peduncular bract 9 cm long, inserted 1 cm from base, brown; peduncle 2 cm long, 0.8 cm wide; rachis 5 cm long, 1 cm wide; rachillae 3 per rachis, 2-5 cm long. Fruits globose, 0.5x0.5 cm, red, with 0.3 cm long white spines. Silica gel sample taken. Transect: HB 413, subunit no. 4, inside transect |