40 <div type=
"description"><p>Clustering palm, occasionally appearing solitary. TRUNK
2-
8 m high; diam.
3-
4 cm, stepped and ringed, with some of the bark corky (diseased?); internodes distally dark green,
1-
3.5 cm, scars
0.2-
1.2 cm wide, pale brown; crownshaft conspicuous, pale green with wax. LEAVES
6-
8 in the crown; young leaves tinged pink; sheath pale brown,
18-
55 cm long, with rounded shoulders, pale green or brown, waxy, distally with few to many reddish scales; petiole
2-
50 cm long, proximally
0.5-
1.5 x
0.3-
0.9 cm, distally
0.5-
0.9 x
0.4-
0.5 cm diam., with many scattered reddish scales, proximally with a triangular adaxial extension to the sheath lining; rachis
0.5-
1.5 m long, in mid-leaf
0.3-
1.6 cm wide, slightly keeled, with many reddish scales or only with some white waxy scale remnants; leaflets
25-
45 on each side of the rachis, in groups of
2-
5 in mid-leaf, group interval
2.5-
12 cm, fanned within the groups, the proximal
8-
33 x
0.4-
1.8 cm, median
14-
46 x
1.1-
2.7 cm (interval
0.3-
2 cm), distal
5.5-
30 x
0.3-
2.6 cm, main vein
1, plus thickened margins, with scattered scales to glabrous, or with a few ramenta
3-
5 mm long, apices bifid, unequally attenuate. INFLORESCENCE infrafoliar, recurved, branched to
1-
2 orders; peduncle
6-
11.5 cm, proximally
9-
10 x
4-
5 mm diam., distally c.
5 x
5 mm, glabrous; prophyll
8-
34 cm x
1.2-
4 cm, borne at
2-
4.5 cm above the base of the peduncle, split over most of its length, pale brown, waxy, with scattered scales to glabrous; peduncular bract inserted at
3.5-
7 cm from the base of the peduncle,
10-
24 cm long, splitting over its entire length except for the
1-
5 cm long beak, sometimes deciduous, pale brown, waxy, with scattered scales or glabrous; non-tubular peduncular bract c.
4.5 cm long; rachis
1.5-
9 cm long, glabrous, with
0-
9 branched and
5-
19 unbranched first order branches, the proximal of these with a rachis up to
2 cm long,
5-
8 x
3-
4 mm diam., with up to
4 rachillae; rachillae
3.5-
14.5 cm, green to cream at anthesis, sinuous,
2-
3 mm diam., with scattered reddish scales or glabrous, the triads spirally arranged, quite dense, slightly sunken; rachilla bract rounded or acute,
1.5-
2 mm; flowers cream or reddish, without scent. STAMINATE FLOWERS with sepals
2.8-
3 x
2.6-
3.2 mm, broadly ovate, proximally gibbous, keeled, acute or obtuse, ciliolate; petals connate to a receptacle
1.8 mm high, free for
2.8-
3 x
2.6-
3 mm, triangular and acute; stamens
6, equal, the filaments connate at their base for
0.3-
0.5 mm,
2.8-
3.3 x
0.8 x
0.3 mm, flattened with reddish specks, the anthers
1.7-
2 x
0.8-
0.9 mm, dorsifixed, versatile, the locules parallel and obtuse; pistillode conical-columnar,
2.4-
2.8 mm high,
0.6-
1.2 mm diam. PISTILLATE FLOWERS with sepals
1.8-
3.5 x
2.3-
3.8 mm, keeled, rounded, ciliolate;petals
2.8-
4.5 x
2.6-
4.6 mm, ciliolate; staminodes six, flat, elongate,
0.6-
1.3 mm long; ovary c.
3.8 x
3.2 mm. FRUIT subglobose to slightly obovoid, rounded at base and apex,
5-
11 x
3-
8 mm; mesocarp
0.5 mm thick; endocarp fibrous, densely anastomosing. SEED ellipsoid,
6-
7.5 x
3.5-
7 mm, pointed at the base, rounded at the apex, with a slight subbasal depression, the surface with anastomosing channels; endosperm ruminate, the intrusions somewhat dense, irregular,
1.5-
2.5 mm deep.
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