Stained-glass window palm - Common

Description

Plants 0.8(0.5-1.0) m tall; stems 0.3 (0.2-0.4) m tall, 1.2 cm in diameter, solitary, not cane-like; internodes 0.5 cm long, not scaly. Leaves 9 (8-11) in the crown, irregularly pinnate, not plicate, bases of blades running diagonally into the rachis; sheaths 8.2 (6.5-10.0) cm long; petioles 31.8 (21.0-38.5) cm long, drying green or yellowish; rachis 24.6 (18.8-29.8) cm long, 2.8 (1.9-4.3) mm in diameter; veins raised and rectangular in cross-section adaxially; pinnae 3(3-4) per side of rachis; basal pinna 28.3 (21.5-36.5) cm long, 4.1 (2.0-10.2) cm wide, forming an angle of 43 (30-53)° with the rachis; apical pinna 16.7 (13.5-21.0) cm long, 9.5 (6.5- 12.0) cm wide, forming an angle of 29 (25-32)° with the rachis. Inflorescences unbranched; prophylls and peduncular bracts ribbed with elongate, unbranched fibers, both bracts tubular, narrow, elongate, closely sheathing the peduncle, more or less persistent; prophylls 13.5 (10.0-17.5) cm long, not short and asymmetrically apiculate, the surfaces not ridged, without unequally wide ridges; peduncular bracts 3.9 (1.5-7.1) cm long, vestigial, inserted 4.9 (3.4-7.0) cm above the prophyll; peduncles 24.3 (15.0-37.5) cm long, 2.1 (1.4-2.8) mm in diameter; rachillae 1, 12.5 (8.5-16.0) cm long, 3.6 (2.8-5.0) mm in diameter, the surfaces without spiky, fibrous projections or ridges, drying brown or yellow-brown, without short, transverse ridges, not filiform and not narrowed between the flower pits; flower pits spirally arranged, glabrous internally;