| Field notes | Evergreen forest, steep hillslope and vally bottom near stream. Solitary diocious fan palm. Flowering when stemless but also erect, sometimes with stem as tall as 5 m, 20 cm in diam, noched with close nodes usually obscured by leaf bases, ultimately smooth, grey. Leaf sheath not fibrous. Petiole to 2 m, dark grey. Leaf sheath not fibrous. Petiole to 2 m, dark shiny green, with grey indumentum when young, the two edges very sharp. Lamina of rather soft texture. Held completely flat, 1.5 m long, c 2 m wide, hastula present as swollen ridge about 45 folds on each side of mid line, split to about 40 cm throughout, rather regular; leaflets not bifid. Lamina dark green above, chalky white beneth, a little indument on upper surface. Infl. female erect, with 2-4 sterile bracts, dull indumentose, up to c 15 partial infl., decreasing in size above axis green indumentose. 1st order branches horizontale, joiuted. Fruit borne on tubercles, ripening cream to buff-orange, smooth at first becoming warty sticmatic remains basal. Mesocarp thick endosperm with weak ruminations |
