Small, sometimes clustering palm, often with a narrow skirt of dead leaves. Living leaves, 1-1.2m (3-4ft) long have many linear, bright deep green leaflets, sometimes with flattened, scale-like hairs beneath. Bowl-shaped cream flowers appear in panicles, up to 45cm (18in) long, usually in summer, followed by ellipsoid, edible black fruit, up to 1cm long.
