Plants acaulescent; stem 8-15 cm diam.; 1-8 leaves in crown. Leaves 40-80 cm long, strongly keeled, with 80-170 pinnae, grey-green or blue, dull or semi-glossy; petiole 5-15 cm long, 5-9 mm wide at lowest pinna; rachis not to slightly spirally twisted. Basal pinnae not reducing to spines. Median pinnae simple, 8-20 cm long, 3-8 mm wide, strongly discolorous; margins flat or recurved; apex entire, not spinescent. Pollen cones fusiform, 15-20 cm long, 4-5 cm diam.; microsporophyll lamina 15-25 mm long, 15-20 mm wide; apical spine 0-10 mm long. Seed cones ovoid, 15-25 cm long, 7-9 cm diam.; megasporophyll with an expanded, peltate apex 35-60 mm wide and 15-30 mm long; apical spine 2-33 mm long. Seeds ovoid, 20-35 mm long, 17-25 mm wide; sarcotesta red.
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