Trunk to 20 m tall, to 30 cm diam. Leaves 9–12, to 4 m long, becoming vertically orientated; leaf sheath blue-green. Pinnae 68–71 each side of rachis, to 110 cm long, dark green adaxially, silver-grey abaxially; ramenta lacking. Inflorescence to 160 cm long, branched to 4 orders; axes white to creamy green; rachillae to 30 cm long, erect to semi-pendulous, moderately flexuose distally. Flowers closely spaced on rachilla; floral bracts raised with a sharp margin; perianth white to cream. Staminate flower to 9 mm long; stamens 14–24; filaments curved; pistillode about equal to petals. Pistillate flower to 5 mm high. Fruit conicovoid to ovoid, 13–21 mm long, 10–12 mm wide; stigmatic remains apical to slightly subapical; mesocarp fibres terete, to 0.5 mm wide, sparingly branched, becoming unravelled in the dried state. Seed ovoid-elongate, 14–20 mm long, 8–9.5 mm diam.; raphe fibres strongly adherent.
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