Plants acaulescent; stem 8-20 cm diam.; 1-6 leaves in crown. Leaves 45-100 cm long, moderately keeled, with 80-150 pinnae, mid-green, semi-glossy to highly glossy; petiole 20-35 cm long, 4-8 mm wide at lowest pinna; rachis strongly spirally twisted. Basal pinnae not reducing to spines. Median pinnae simple, 17-30 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, strongly discolorous; margins ±incurved; apex entire, not spinescent. Pollen cones fusiform, 15 cm long, 4.5 cm diam.; microsporophyll lamina 15 mm long, 14 mm wide; apical spine 2-10 mm long. Seed cones ovoid, 10-16 cm long, 7-11 cm diam.; megasporophyll with an expanded, peltate apex 55 mm wide and 20 mm long; apical spine 5-35 mm long. Seeds ovoid, 24-27 mm long, 19-23 mm wide; sarcotesta red.
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