| Field notes | Solitary midstory palm. Stem 100 cm high, 60 cm thick, covered by leaf bases. Leaves 17 per stem; sheath 100 cm long, open; petiole 220 cm long, section margined; rachis 740 cm long; lamina pinnate, 770 cm long, 220 cm wide, bushy, glabrous; pinnae 230 per side, irregularly inserted in groups of 2-7; basal pinna 65 cm long, middle pinna 130 cm long, apical pinna 20 cm long. Inflorescence interfoliar; prophyll 50+ cm long, 20 cm wide, woody, fibrous apically; peduncular bract 175 cm long, brown, woody; peduncle 70 cm long, 4 cm wide; rachis 60 cm long, 2.5 cm wide; rachillae 320 per rachis. Flowers cream, sessile. Silica gel sample of flowers taken. Transect: HB 445, subunit no. 81, inside transect |