| Field notes | Cespitose understory palm. Stem 50 cm long, 1.2 cm thick; internodes 4 cm long, > stem diameter, brown, smooth, covered by leaf bases. Leaves 5 per stem; sheath 14.5 cm long, closed, with 1.8 cm long, black spines; petiole 33 cm long; rachis 19 cm long; lamina entire, bifid, 47 cm long, 26 cm wide, flat, hairy. Infructescence infrafoliar; prophyll 5 cm long, 1 cm wide, papery; peduncular bract 11 cm long, inserted 1.5 cm from base, brown, papery, with 0.5 cm long, black spines; peduncle 1.7 cm long, 0.4 cm wide; rachillae 2 per rachis, 4-4.7 cm long. Fruit 0.8 cm long, 0.7 cm wide, red with 0.1 cm long, brown spines. Silica gel sample taken. Transect: HB 437, subunit no. 1, inside transect |