| Field notes | Relatively abundant on slopes from km, 8 of road onward. Stems erect or some prostrate on lodges and then, when damaged, suckering and flowering from slender erect crown. Leaves very stiff, medium green with bluish cast below, the sheath brown and thin, soon becoming dark brown. Inflorescences arching the bracts brown below, green or yellow-green above, branches cream-colored in bud. teeth on petiole yellow. brown. Young leaves sometimes almost glaucous when first expanded. Inflorescence becoming brown as buds mature and merge, the inflorescence then up to twice as long as the leaves. Plants with about 15 live leaves, the old ones persistent as a shag on some. Leaves flat, stiff, basal segments curving, the blade slightly costapalmate with 57-58 segments, 80 cm. long, 2 cm. across at tip, 3 cm, across at base, fibers red-brown. Branches of inflorescence mostly rather sharply curved downward then with branchlets divaricate stiffly in all directions, the basal axes flattened. Pinnae strongly plicate, the tips bifid for several centimeters. |
