| Field notes | Cespitose midstory palm. Stem 8.40 m high, 10 cm thick; internodes 20 cm long, > stem diameter, brown, smooth. Base of stem with few visible roots, 16 cm long, 1 cm thick. Leaves 7 per stem; sheath 140 cm long, closed; petiole 12 cm long, section margined; rachis 405 cm long; lamina pinnate, 438 cm long, 200 cm wide, flat, glabrous; pinnae 85 per side, insertion irregular; basal pinna 98 cm long, middle pinna 113 cm long, apical pinna 34 cm long. Infructescence infrafoliar; prophyll 4 cm long, 9 cm wide, woody; rachis 11 cm long, 3 cm wide; rachillae 103 per rachis, 53-65 cm long. Silica gel sample taken. Transect: HB 461, subunit no. 28, outside transect |