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Habit : | Palms up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Trunk smooth with annular leaf scars. |
Leaves : | Leaves compound, bipinnate, to 5 m long; pinnae 5-7 pairs, to 1.5 m long, leaflets lamina 25 x 10 cm, cuneiform, apex premorse. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence spadices, shortly peduncled, much branched; spathes 3-5; spikelets closely arranged on the rachillae; flowers unisexual. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, stalked, ovoid or globose; 1-2 seeded, ruminate. |