Copernicia hospita Mart.

A palm. The stems are 4-8 m tall and 12-30 cm wide. Sometimes they can be swollen at the base and there can also be side shoots. The leaves are spreading and fan shaped. The leaf stalks are long. The leaves are round in outline. They are grey and waxy on the under-surface. They do not have thorns along the edge. The flowering stalk is longer than the leaves. The flowering branches are 0.5-3.5 cm long and 1-2.5 mm wide. They are hairy and the bracts are tube shaped. The fruit are round and 1.7-2 mm across. They are black. The plant varies a lot.

Open savannah, woodland, and occasionally in coastal regions adjacent to mangrove swamps; usually at low elevations.

The fruit are used as an occasional food harvested in forests.

Can be grown by seedlings.