Plants acaulescent; stem 10-25 cm diam.; 1-4 leaves in crown. Leaves 65-95 cm long, with 100-220 pinnae, mid-green, highly glossy; petiole 15-30 cm long, 6-9 mm wide at lowest pinna; rachis strongly spirally twisted. Basal pinnae not reducing to spines. Median pinnae simple, 15-40 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, strongly discolorous; margins incurved; apex entire, not spinescent. Pollen cones fusiform, 7-14 cm long, 2.5-4 cm diam.; microsporophyll lamina 12-18 mm long, 12-17 mm wide; apical spine 0-15 mm long. Seed cones ovoid, 8-14 cm long, 4-6 cm diam.; megasporophyll with an expanded, peltate apex 20-27 mm wide and 10-14 mm long; apical spine 0-28 mm long. Seeds ovoid, 17-25 mm long, 15-20 mm wide; sarcotesta red.
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