Geonoma congesta

Description

Clustering palm 3.4 (1.5-6.0) m tall; stems 4.1 (1.0-8.0) m tall, 1.6 (1.0-2.7) cm in diameter, solitary or clustered, canelike; internodes 2.0 (0.9-5.5) cm long, yellowish and smooth. Leaves 10 (6-13) per stem, undivided or irregularly pinnate, not plicate, bases of blades running diagonally into the rachis; sheaths 23.2 (15.5-27.0) cm long; petioles 18.7 (5.5-51.0) cm long, drying green or yellowish; rachis 66.1 (38.8-132.0) cm long, 5.1 (2.4-15.2) mm in diameter; veins raised and rectangular in cross-section adaxially; pinnae 4 (1-24) per side of rachis; basal pinna 59.2 (33.0-82.0) cm long, 18.0 (4.5-35.5) cm wide, forming an angle of 25 (15-38)° with the rachis; apical pinna 34.9 (21.7-48.0) cm long, 20.7 (7.1-42.0) cm wide, forming an angle of 26 (20-32?)° with the rachis. Inflorescences branched 1?3 orders; prophylls and peduncular bracts not ribbed with elongate, unbranched fibers, flattened, deciduous or persistent; prophylls 15.9 (6.0-29.7) cm long, not short and asymmetrically apiculate, the surfaces ridged with close, equal, parallel, non-dividing ridges, scarcely tomentose between the ridges, without unequally wide ridges; peduncular bracts