Editing Cyphophoenix alba (section)

===Description:===
A medium palm to 7 m with a grey/brown trunk to 12 cm in diameter with
long internodes and the upper trunk whitish with a waxy covering.
Leaves, about 10, are spreading. The crownshaft, about 1.2m long,
shallowly split opposite the petiole, is whitish grey with dense dark red
fioccose scales, scattered at the base, becoming very dense toward and into
the petiole, covered with a whitish wax. The petiole, to 60cm long and the
arching rachis to 2.8m long are brown lepidote below. The leaflets,
about 45 per side, are held horizontal, acuminate, rigid with a prominent
mid rib, green above with lepidote scales below on the mid rib and lateral
ribs and brown ramenta to 8mm on the mid rib below. Leaflets measure
from 5mm to 6.2cm wide and from 24cm to 1.2m long.
Figure 1.