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Tall unbranched palm with persistant scars of leaf bases on the trunk. Leaves in terminal cluster, orbicular, flabellately plicate, split to the middle into slender, 2-fid, narrow lobes; petiole long, with spinous margins. Flowers minute, loosely arranged in panicles on long peduncled spadix arise from upper leaf sheaths. Panicles erect in flowers, pendulous in fruiting stage, spathes many, sheathing, tubular. Fruit globose drupe with the style sub-terminal; seeds erect, ventral face hollow.