Palm with sturdy trunk to 2 m high; leaf scars 1–2 cm apart. Leaves stiff, arcuate, 1–1.5 m long; petiole stout, 20–30 cm long; pinnae 25–40 cm long. Inflorescence 30–50 cm long, spreading stiffly, with 100 or more ultimately slender branches. Male flowers developing first; petals c. twice as long as sepals; anthers dorsifixed; pistillode cylindrical. Female flowers cream-coloured, 8 mm long. Fruit c. 1 cm diam., red.
Confined to the dwarf forest mainly above 750 m on Mounts Gower and Lidgbird (Green 1994: 411); sheltered closed forest of the mountain summits, rarely lower, a conspicuous component of the Mount Gower cloud forest (Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW) 2007: 175).
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