Slender tree to 6 (–10) m high, clumping, with older trunks often decumbent; prop roots absent. Leaves ascending to arching, 1.2–2 (–2.5) m long, (3–) 4–5 cm wide, not glaucous; margins with prickles from base to apex; midrib prickles present from base to apex, sometimes sparse in middle; M-pleats sometimes armed near apex. Male flowers: stamens appearing free; anthers 6–7 mm long. Fruiting head solitary, ± spherical to very broadly ovoid, 7–12 cm long, 7–8 cm diam., orange-red; peduncle scabrid/spinulose, to 50 cm long. Drupes unilocular, free in upper two-thirds, narrowly ovoid to narrowly obovoid, 4–6-angled, strongly so when dried, (15–) c. 30 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, minutely scabrid at least near apex; style 6–10 mm long; stigma a linear abaxial groove starting c. 1 mm below tip of style.
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