Plants acaulescent; stem 10-25 cm diam.; 1-7 leaves in crown. Leaves 40-90 cm long, moderately keeled, with 70-120 pinnae, grey-green or blue, semi-glossy; petiole 7-15 cm long, 4-9 mm wide at lowest pinna; rachis not to moderately spirally twisted. Basal pinnae not reducing to spines. Median pinnae dichotomously branched, 8-20 cm long, strongly discolorous; segments 1-4 mm wide; margins recurved; apex entire, not spinescent. Pollen cones narrowly ovoid, 15-20 cm long, 5-6 cm diam.; microsporophyll lamina 17-22 mm long, 12-16 mm wide; apical spine 1-14 mm long. Seed cones ovoid, 10-18 cm long, 6-10 cm diam.; megasporophyll with an expanded, peltate apex 40-50 mm wide and 10-15 mm long; apical spine 2-15 mm long. Seeds ovoid, 26-30 mm long, 18-21 mm wide; sarcotesta red.
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