| Field notes | Small, solitary palm tree. Stem greenish, 80 cm long and 1.5 cm in diamter, w/ conspicuous ring-formed leaf scars. Leaves 9; leaf sheath 8 cm long, basally closed and open 7/8 of its length; petiole 4 cm long; rachis 18 cm long; leaf blade simple, apically bilobed, serrate, metallic/greenish. Inflorescence infrafoliar, a spike; prophyll complete, 8 cm long; peduncular bracts 4; peduncle c. 40 cm long; rachis thickened, shining orange, c. 20 cm long. Fruits greenish, three-carpellate. DNA voucher. |
