| Field notes | Solitary understory palm. Stem 89 cm high, 0.5 cm thick; internodes 4 cm long, > stem diameter, green-black, smooth, covered by leaf bases. Leaves 3 per stem; sheath 7.5 cm long, open; petiole 9 cm long, section round; rachis 11.5 cm long; lamina entire, bifid, 25 cm long, 18 cm wide, flat, glabrous. Infructescence infrafoliar; prophyll 3 cm long, 1 cm wide, papery; peduncular bract 7.5 cm long, inserted 1.5 cm from base, brown, papery; peduncle 2 cm long, 0.7 cm wide; rachis 3 cm long, 0.7 cm wide. Fruit green when young, becomming red. Silica gel sample taken. Transect: HB 413, subunit no. 56, inside transect |