Slender small and usually inconspicuous unarmed glabrous monoecious shade-loving palms with infrafoliar inflorescences: leaves irregularly pinnate or pin-natisect: peduncle as long as the flowering part of the spadix, erect, arising from a sheath and itself covered in close-fitting sheaths that soon become dry and per-haps shreddy: flowers minute in lines or little acervuli on very slender ascending rachillae, several together, of which the basal one is pistillate and the others staminate, not sunken in the axis; petals valvate in the bud in the staminate flower and convolute-imbricate in the pistillate, more or less connate at base; stamens 6: fruit oblong, small, slightly succulent; albumen white, intruded by projections from the walls.
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