San pablo palm (Chamaedorea pinnatifrons)

Description

Trunk type: Solitary. Trunk diameter: 0.5 to 3 centimeters, (1") Hight: To 4 meters, (13'). Spread: To 1.2 meters, (4'). Leaf detail: Pinnately compound, alternately opposed, 4 to 8 fronds average, with 8 to 22 lanceolate leaflets, with up to 11 veins per side. Flower detail: Female flowers cream colored. Flower stalk coming from between the leaves, bright orange to cream. Fruit detail: Yellow orange, turning black, or yellow when ripe. up to 0.6 inches long by 0.2 inches in diameter (1.5 by 0.5 centimeters). elongated. Stems erect, sometimes decumbent, they reach a size of up to 4 m high and 0.5 to 3 cm in diameter, often with stilt roots, internodes 1-18 cm long. Leaves 4-10, erect-patent, pinnate, rarely simple and bifid, of 0.8-1.5 m long, pinnae (2 -) 4-8 on each side, middle pinnae largest, elliptic to lanceolate or rhombic-lanceolate, sigmoid to falcate, 15-40 cm long and 2.5-12 cm wide, midrib with 2 or 3 nerves on each side or 3-7 main veins prominent on the face, when bifid leaves 25-75 cm long and 15-30 cm wide, incised in the apex by 1/3-2/3 of its length, wolves 5-15 cm wide, with 8-14 pinnatiacostillados primary nerves on either side, rachis to 70 cm long, abaxially pale with a band which extends to the sheath, tubular sheath, 6-40 cm long, 5-55 cm long petiole. Inflorescences inter or infrafoliar, solitary, pendulous when erect but very heavy with fruit, peduncle 10-70 cm long, bracts 3-7, rachis up to 15 cm long, greenish blossoms, red-orange in fruit; staminate inflorescences with (3 -) 5-21 of 5-28 cm rachilla long, pendulous, green to yellow-orange flowers 3.5 mm long and wide, green to yellow, imbricate sepals and / or connate at base, petals valvate, connate apically and basally; pistillate inflorescences with (2 -) 5-15 rachillas of 4-24 cm long, erect, patent, rigid, simple or rarely forked basal, green to yellow in flower, becoming somewhat pendulous and red in-orange fruit, flowers 1-1.5 mm long and 3.5-4 mm wide, moderately dense spirals, green to yellow, fragrant, sepals connate and / or embedded in the base, imbricate petals almost to the apex, connate the base. The fruits are ellipsoid to globose, up to 20 mm long, yellow, orange or red when ripe and turning black.