| Field notes | Solitary. Stem 6 m, diam. 36 cm, erect, columnar, base covered with adventitious roots forming a clump, these 46 cm x 86 cm, the upper stem covered with persistent remains of erect sheaths and petioles, internodes 13 cm long at base. Leaves 14, erect with rachis twisted so pinnae apear in a vertical plane; sheath + petiole 180 cm x 43 cm , rounded below, glaborous, dark brown, channeled above , dark brown and glaborous, margins sharp, covered with fibers, these 30 x 0,4 cm,; rachis 955 cm, 13 cm wide, 8 cm in cross, rounded below, channeled above with a prominent ridge, margins 2,5 cm wide, glabous, gren, abaxially brown tomentous; pinnae193 per side, regular distributed, basal pinnae 98 cm x 1 cm, middel pinnae 158 cm x 5 cm, apical pinnae Inflorescence 3 decaying; peduncilar bract 225 cm x 33 cm, bicarinate, brown-creamy inside, dark brown outside and deeply longitudinally fissured. Infructescence 3; prophyll dropped; peduncle 156 cm x 8 cm x 4 cm, ovale in cross section, light green, brownich tomentouse; rachis 104 cm x 10 cm x 6 cm, yellow-green, above each rachillae a furrow, these 4 cm x 1 cm,; rachillae 111, basal rachillae 19 cm, middel rachillae 19 cm, apical fruits sessile, eash rachillae subtended by a 2 x 2 cm bract. Fruits 1-7 per rachillae, these 7 x 2,5 cm. Number of fruits 456. |
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