| Field notes | Solitary understory palm. Stem 140 cm high, 1.5 cm thick; internodes 4 cm long, smooth, brown. Base of stem with few visible roots. Leaves 9; sheath 28 cm long, open; petiole 75 cm long, section round, brown tomentose, with 4 cm long black spines; rachis 82 cm long, brown tomentose; lamina pinnate, 110 cm long, 50 cm wide, bushy, glabrous; pinnae 9-10 per side, irregularly inserted in groups of 2; basal pinna 21 cm long, middle pinna 27 cm long, apical pinna 30 cm long. Infructescence interfoliar; prophyll 9 cm long, 1.7 cm wide; peduncular bract 27 cm long, inserted 4 cm from base, brown, woody, with 1 cm long brown spines; peduncle 22 cm long, 0.5 cm wide; rachis 3 cm long, 0.3 cm wide; rachillae 5, 4-6 cm long. Fruits black, 1 cm long, 1.4 cm wide. Silicagel sample taken. Transect: HB 740, subunit no. 9, inside transect |
This record
Other records of Bactris maraja var. juruensis