34 <div type=
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10 m,
25 cm diam., slightly flared at the base; internodes
12 cm, nodal scars
2 cm, white. LEAVES c.
15 in the crown, porrect; sheath partially open in outer leaves, c.
62 cm long,
5 mm thick, covered in dense rusty brown tomentum, with auricles
3.5 cm high; petiole
17 cm long,
7-
9 cm wide, channelled adaxially, densely tomentose but glabrescent; rachis to
4 m long, proximally channelled and tomentose, more distally becoming flattened and eventually keeled distally, glabrous distally; leaflets up to
103 on each side of the rachis, regular, slightly drooping, green, linear, straight, acuminate, the proximal
55 x
0.5-
0.8 cm, median
85 x
4 cm, distal
55 x
0.5-
0.8 cm, glabrous but for some ramenta on the proximal part of the midrib abaxially, main veins
3. INFLORESCENCE interfoliar becoming infrafoliar in fruit, branched to
3 orders, to
1.7 x
1.4 m; peduncle to
65 cm long,
11 cm diam. proximally,
3-
6 cm diam. distally, flattened, reddish tomentose over green; prophyll
± woody, c.
43 cm, borne at
12 cm above the base of the peduncle, c.
12 cm wide, tomentose; peduncular bract deciduous, woody, inserted at
26 cm from the base of the peduncle, to
70 x
10-
15 cm, reddish tomentose; two smaller peduncular bracts present near the apex of the peduncle, to
17 cm long, tomen-tose; rachis
100 cm, flattened, grey-tomentellous, with
24 first order branches; rachis bracts to
3 cm long; rachillae spreading, to
30 cm long,
3 mm diam., green; with distant triads in pits; rachilla bract
0.5-
0.75 mm high. STAMINATE FLOWERS with sepals
2-
2.5 mm, keeled, truncate; petals on a
1 mm high receptacle,
2 x
1.5-
1.75 mm, ovate, acute; stamens said to be connate for
1.75 mm, filaments
0.8-
1 mm long, anthers
1 mm long, dorsifixed?; pistillode
1.75-
2 mm, columnar. PISTILLATE FLOWERS with sepals
2 mm; petals
3 x
3 mm; gynoecium
4 mm high,
2-
2.5 mm diam., with
1 mm long stigma lobes. FRUIT globose, dark brown,
10-
12 mm; endocarp fibrous, the fibres anastomosing rather intensely. SEED
8.5-
10 x
8.5-
9 mm, globose, pointed at the base, rounded at the apex, with a subbasal depression corresponding to the embryo; ruminations of the endosperm irregular, to
3.5 mm deep and up to half the diameter of the seed wide. EOPHYLL pinnate.
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