| Field notes | Solitary understory palm. Stem 40 cm high, 1.5 cm thick; internodes 2 cm long, smooth, brown, covered by leaf bases. Leaves 5 per stem; leaf sheath 15.3 cm long, closed; petiole 40 cm long, section round, spiny; spines 3.9 cm long, white with a brown apex; rachis 61 cm long; lamina pinnate, 79 cm long, 42 cm wide, bushy, glabrous; pinnae 12 per side, regularly inserted in groups of 2-5; basal pinna 33.5 cm long, middle pinna 23 cm long, apical pinna 26 cm long. Infructescence infrafoliar; prophyll 9.8 cm long, 1.3 cm wide; peduncular bract 13 cm long, brown, with 0.4 cm long, dark brown spines; peduncle 16 cm long, 0.7 cm wide; rachillae 2 per rachis, 3.2-4 cm long. Fruits 2.2 cm long, 1.1 cm wide, bordeaux/green. Silica gel sample taken. Transect: HB 452, subunit no. 1, outside transect |