| Field notes | Solitary understory palm. Stem 5 m high, 2.5 cm thick; internodes 5-10 cm long, brown, smooth. Visible roots 30-40, 10-15 cm long, 0.3-0.4 cm thick. Leaves 5; sheath 45 cm long, incl. a 20 cm long ocrea, closed; petiole 35 cm long, section round, with to 1.5 cm long brown spines, rachis 105 cm long; lamina pinnate, 120 cm long, 60 cm wide, bushy; pinnae 21 per side, regularly inserted in groups of 3-4; basal pinna 27 cm long, middle pinna 33 cm long, apical pinna 21 cm long. Infructescence interfoliar; prophyll 23 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, herbaceous; peduncular bract 31 cm long, inserted 7 cm from base, brown/purple, woody, with 1 cm long black spines; peduncle 20 cm long, 1 cm wide; rachis 2 cm long 0.5 cm wide; rachillae 7, 8-9 cm long. Flowers cream to purple, sessile. Silicagel sample taken. Transect: HB 769, subunit no. 17, inside transect |
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