Eugeissona tristis Griff.

A clumping palm. It only has a very small trunk. It often forms dense thickets. It is spiny and has feather-like leaves. It forms large dense clumps. The leaves can be 8 m high. Individual leaves are held stiffly erect. The leaf stalks are spiny. The dead leaves are often mixed in the clump. The leaflets are regularly spaced and 1 m long. They grow in an almost flat plane. The flower stalk may rise 3 m in height. The flowers are brownish. The fruit are 10 cm long by 5 cm wide. The young fruit are edible.

Lowland and hill rain forest, mainly on ridges and slopes, rarely in swamps, often found thriving in cleared forest areas; at elevations up to 000 metres.

The immature fruit are edible. The shoots are eaten. There is a little sago or starch on the trunk.

Can be grown by seedlings.