150 cm long, the distal to 100 cm long secondary pinnae drying pale coloured, about 7-11 on each side of the secondary rachis, up to about 26 x 7 cm, irregularly wedge-shaped, leathery, veins radiating from the base, adaxially glabrous, abaxially with broad bands of caducous brown scales transverse veinlets obscure. 20 cm apafi, the basal primary pinnae about 80 cm long, the mid-leaf primary pinnae ca.

Leaves 5-7 m long, about 1.5 m wide, young leaves pale green, older leaves dirty blackish green sheath 1-2 m long, about 15 cm wide, markedly fibrous along margins, in mature leaves covered in dull brown tomentum, in juveniles strikingly tiger-striped with bands of pale and dark tomentum ligule to about 25-60 cm long, covered in a dense layer of dirty brown tomentum, the ligule and sheath margins disintegrating into thin long black fibres petiole about 1-2 m long, 2-6 x 2-3 cm in cross section, in young leaves tiger-striped with bands of pale and dark indumentum as the sheath, in older leaves dark olive green rachis to 5 m long, to 20 x 28 mm in section in mid-leaf, adaxially with a strong flange about 8 x 5 mm, abaxially convex, covered in dense caduceus dark brown tomentum primary pinnae about 20 on each side if the rachis, up to ca. Solitary monoecious hapaxanthic palm stems 6-16 m tall, about 20-40 cm in diam., bare near the base, distally covered with sheaths internodes 30-40 cm long, nodal scars about 2 cm wide, internode surface cracking longitudinally and covered with a thick layer of dirty brown tomentum. Also unusual in this palm caries only 3 to 4 fronds, at a time. Leaf detail: Pinnately compound, bipinnate, to 5 meters, (16 feet), Zebra striped petiole,thick, leathery, blackish/green leaflets are at differing angles, and in irregular clusters along the frond, giving the leaf a generally disorganised appearance. Photo by Philippe AlvarezIn mountain forest at 850-1500 m.

Harga tokek 2016