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| Habit : | Palms up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Trunk with annular leaf scars. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, palmate, circular or sublunate; rachis stout, concave, spinous at the edges; lamina plicate, cleft to about the middle into 80-100 linear lanceolate bifid lobes. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence spadices, terminal erect, paniculate, pyramidal, spathes many, tubular, flowers small, bisexual. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe; 1-seeded, albumen not ruminate. |