Trunk to 17 m tall, 15–30 cm diam., grey, smooth or obscurely annular. Leaves 25–40 in an open crown, rigid, arcuate to drooping; petiole 80–200 cm long, with scattered blunt thorns on proximal margins; leaf blade nearly circular, 80–110 cm long, coriaceous, grey-green, strongly pruinose, dull, abaxially glabrous, divided c. 1/2 its length; segments 40–56, rigid, deeply bifurcate, with attenuate lobes. Inflorescence 50–150 cm long, branched to 4 orders; bracts glabrous or sparsely scaly; rachillae glabrous, striate. Flowers solitary or in pairs, funnel-shaped, cream to pale yellow; sepals triangular, c. 0.8 mm long, acute, membranous; petals narrowly ovate, 1.2–4 mm long, acute; stamens c. 0.9 mm long. Fruit globose to ellipsoid, 8–15 mm long, dark reddish brown. Seed globose, c. 9 mm diam.
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A solitary palm. It grows 16 m high. The trunk is 20 cm across. The trunk is light grey and straight. The leaf crown is round and open. The leaves are 1 m long. They are fan shaped. The segments are stiff and extend half way to the leaf stalk. The leaves are bluish-green. They are thick and leathery. The fruit are brown and round. They are 1.2 cm across.
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