| Field notes | Cespitose understory palm. Stem 1.28 m high, 1.3 cm thick; internodes 11 cm long, > stem diameter, dark brown, smooth, covered by leaf bases. Leaves 6 per stem; sheath 24 cm long, closed, with 2 cm long, black spines; petiole 30 cm long, section softly margined; rachis 42 cm long; lamina pinnate, 55 cm long, 43 cm wide, flat, hairy; pinnae 15 per side, regularly inserted in groups of 1-5; basal pinna 25 cm long, middle pinna 29 cm long, apical pinna 22 cm long. Inflorescence infrafoliar; prophyll 9.3 cm long, 1 cm wide, papery; peduncular bract 14.5 cm long, inserted 1.1 cm from base, brown, papery, with 0.4 cm long, black spines; peduncle 9 cm long, 0.7 cm wide; rachillae 2 per rachis, 6.2-7.5 cm long. Flower cream colored, pedicilate. Silica gel sample taken. Transect: HB 449, subunit no. 33, inside transect |