Stout palms with pinnate leaves. Crownshaft short, 15–20 cm long, somewhat loose, deep green with brown scurf; sheathing leaf bases gradually passing into stout petioles. Inflorescences paniculate, much branched, borne below crownshaft; prophyll tubular, 2-keeled; bract perpendicular, tubular, beaked, exserted from the prophyll. Flowers sessile on notched rachillae, in groups of 3, with 2 staminate and 1 pistillate between, the latter developing later. Male flowers: sepals 3, imbricate; petals 3, valvate; stamens 6; pistillode small. Female flowers: sepals and petals 3, both whorls imbricate; staminodes 3; ovary subglobose; stigmas recurved. Fruit a globular drupe; stigma scar lateral.
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