Stout palm with pinnate leaves. Crownshaft of tightly closed leaf bases; leaf base and sheath distinct. Inflorescence paniculate; branches stoutish; prophyll tubular, with 2 flat lateral keels; bract similar to prophyll but not keeled. Flowers sessile, in triads of usually only staminate flowers and paired basally and distally on rachillae; female flowers, when present, between a pair of male flowers. Male flowers; sepals 3, imbricate; petals 3, valvate; stamens 9–12, with anthers versatile; pistillode small. Female flowers developing a year later than male flowers: sepals and petals each 3, imbricate; staminodes 3; ovary spheroidal-conical; stigma entire. Fruit a drupe, ovoid-ellipsoidal, large.
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