Juania australis Drude ex Hook.F.

A palm. It grows 19 m high. The trunk is 25 cm across. It is light to dark grey. There are closely spaced rings of leaf base scars. They are light coloured. There is no crown-shaft. The leaf crown is half round. The leaves are 2-2.6 m long and spreading but slightly arching at the ends. The leaflets are green and 60 cm long. They are stiff and narrowly sword shaped. They are divided at their tips. The flowering stalk grows from the leaf sheaths. The bracts are long and woody. The fruit are orange-red. They are 1.5-1.8 cm across.

It grows in moist cool forests on steep ridges between 200 and 835 m altitude in Juan Fernandez Island in the Pacific off Chile. It does not tolerate cold temperatures, nor hot temperatures.

It is difficult to grow.