Geonoma interrupta Mart.

A palm. It can have a single stem or up to 10 stems. They can be 0.1-7 m tall and 2-12 cm wide. They are light brown. There are 6-23 leaves and the blades are 2 m long. The leaflets may be regular or irregular. There are 3-41 curved leaflets on each side. There are usually narrow leaflets among broad leaflets. The flowering stalk is among the leaves. The flowering stalk has 1-3 orders or branching. There are 8-32 flowering branches. The lower ones are branched again and 9-25 cm long and 1-3 mm thick. The fruit are round and 3-6 mm long.

Moist or wet, dense, mixed lowland forest. Understorey of lowland to premontane rain forest, in both well-drained soils on slopes and also in wet and poorly drained soil, usually at elevations to 1,000 metres, occasionally to 1,400 metres.

The young tender flowers are cooked and eaten. The palm heart is somewhat bitter but is eaten.

Can be grown by seedlings.