Description

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Growth Form: Unbranched tree.

Stems: Trunk to 30 m tall, to 30 cm diam.

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Leaves: Leaves simple (appearing compound due to secondary separating of the blade). Spirally arranged. Leaves 10–12, to 4.5 m long, becoming vertically orientated; leaf sheath mid to lime green. Pinnae 60–80 each side of rachis, to 75 cm long. Blades dark green adaxially, silver-grey abaxially; ramenta lacking.

Flowers: Inflorescence to 100 cm long, branched to 4 orders; axes white to creamy green; rachillae to 30 cm long, erect to semipendulous, moderately flexuose distally. Flowers widely spaced on rachilla; floral bracts raised with sharp margins; perianth white to cream. Staminate flower to 9.5 mm long; stamens 9–16; filaments curved; pistillode about equal to petals. Pistillate flower to 4 mm high.

Fruit: Fruit ovoid; 8–14 mm long; 6–11 mm wide; stigmatic remains apical; mesocarp fibres to 1 mm wide; flat; sparingly branched; remaining compact in the dried state. Seeds globose; 8 mm diam.; raphe fibres weakly adherent.

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