CONSERVATION STATUS:
- Extinct in nature
CULTIVATION:
- Full sun.
- Can sustain drought but does well with regular watering and good drainage.
- Tolerate light frost
PROPAGATION:
- Mainly from seed. (Only one female plant in private collection) Seldom produces suckers.
NATURAL HABITAT
- Northern Province
STEM:
- Erect stems with a length of up to 3 meters and a diameter of 30 – 40 cm.
LEAVES:
- Leaves are dark green with a yellowish rachis, rigid with a length of 0.8 m – 1.2 m.
- Leaflets shield one another. Young leaves have a whitish felt-like hairy layer, but later become hairless. Leaflets are 60 mm – 80 mm long, 10 mm – 12 mm wide and have an entire margin. Leaflets are sickle shaped with a revolute margin.
Frontal View
Back View
Leaflets
- New set of leaves on an adult plant.
- E brevifoliolatus seedling - new leaves (Broad overlapping leaflets)
