Geonoma stricta submontana

Description

Geonoma is a genus of small to medium-sized palms native to the forest understorey of tropical Central and South America. This palm genus is one of the largest in the Neotropics. Its 64 species are distributed from Mexico and Haiti in the north to Paraguay in the south; two are found in the Lesser Antilles. Palm 1.8 (0.4-4.0) m tall; stems 1.4 (0.2-5.0) m tall, 0.7 (0.3-1.6) cm in diameter, solitary or clustering, not cane-like; internodes 3.0 (0.4-8.4) cm long, yellowish and smooth. Leaves 8 (4-17) per stem, undivided or irregularly pinnate, not plicate, bases of blades running diagonally into the rachis; sheaths 8.9 (1.0-22.0) cm long; petioles 12.9 (1.0-58.0) cm long, drying green or yellowish; rachis 29.6 (10.1-75.8) cm long, 2.6 (0.9-6.0) mm in diameter; veins raised and rectangular in cross-section adaxially or not raised or slightly raised and triangular in cross-section adaxially; pinnae 2 (1-12) per side of rachis; basal pinna 20.4 (8.0-38.0) cm long, 3.4 (0.6-11.4) cm wide, forming an angle of 40 (9-112)° with the rachis; apical pinna 2.6 (3.2-38.5) cm long, 10.3 (1.5-23.5) cm wide, forming an angle of 34 (14-50)° with the rachis.