Solitary feather-leafed palm to 14 m tall, 20-25 cm diameter; trunk bottle-shaped. Crown with 10 leaves. Crownshaft smooth, green, c. 90 cm long. Petiole short, rachis 2.4-3 m long with many leaflets growing from different angles around the rachis giving a plume-like arrangement. Inflorescence much-branched growing just beneath the crownshaft with yellowish green flowers of both sexes. Fruits ovoid, 5 cm long, ripening orang red.