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| Habit : | Monoecious palm, trunk up to 6 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Trunk grey, densely clothed with the black fibrous remains of the leaf_sheaths. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, pinnate, 3.5-8 m long; leaflets to 30-100 cm x 2-2.5 cm, linear ensiform, apical one often confluent and obconic, apex narrowed, sometimes shortly, unequally 2-lobed, base asymmetricaly auricled, dark green above, glaucous beneath, margin entire or toothed in the upper half. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Male and female spadices separated, 1 m long. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, hard, globose; 2-3 seeded. |