This appears to be one of those wild/cultivated stands. Normally a flowering pseudo-stem gradually loses its leaves as flowering continues, though can also lose them from frost. These may have had theirs removed and been fed to pigs by local farmers. I found this picture on the iNaturalist website. It is attributed to Steve Shi and is of a ‘wild’ population found in the Chuxoing Yi Autonomous Prefecture, that is the ‘reddish’ area shown on the map below, the darker ‘red’ area shown at the center of the map below. Interestingly, I also grow the Cycad, Cycas panzhihuaensis which is found on a mountainside near Panzhihua at the southern tip of Sichwan Province in the ‘crook’ where the light green lies adjacent and north of Chuxoing Yi.