Livistona jenkinsiana Griff.

Stems to 25 m tall, to 30 cm in diam., rough with leaf scars. Leaves palmate; petioles 1.3-2 m, with brown recurved spines along margins, decreasing in density toward distal end; hastula to 3 cm; blades almost circular in outline, 1.5-2 m wide, grayish green abaxially, green adaxially, regularly divided to ca. halfway or more into 70-100 segments, these briefly split and erect at apices. Inflorescences to 2 m, branched to 3 orders, with 3-6 partial inflorescences; rachillae 10-30 cm; flowers bisexual, solitary or borne in clusters of 2-6, yellowish, 2.5-4 mm. Fruits bluish, globose to ellipsoid or pear-shaped, to 3.5 × 2.5 cm.

A tropical plant. It will grow in temperate and subtropical places. It grows in rainforest. In southern China it grows between 100-2,500 m above sea level. In Yunnan.

Fresh nuts are used as a masticatory. They are chewed like betel nut. They are hard but sweet. The ripe fruit are soaked in salt for 4-5 days and then the fleshy layer is eaten. It is also used as chutney.

The plants are grown from fresh seed which germinate easily.