Distribution and habitat: Mexico - Oaxaca, Veracruz, Yucatan Conservation status: 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants category R. Description:
Plants arborescent. Stem 10 m tall, 40 cm diam. Leaves light or bright green, highly glossy, 150-200 cm long, flat (not keeled) in section (opposing leaflets inserted at 180° on rachis), with 140-240 leaflets; basal leaflets reducing to spines. Leaflets lanceolate, not falcate, inserted at 80-90° to rachis, not overlapping; margins flat, dentate; median leaflets 15-20 cm long, 14-20 mm wide. Pollen cones narrowly ovoid to fusiform, pale grey, 40-55 cm long, 7-10 cm diam. Seed cones ovoid, pale grey, 30-90 cm long, 20-35 cm diam. Seeds ovoid, 40-50 mm long, 30-35 mm wide, sarcotesta cream or white.
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