Slender climbing rattan palm to 20m. Leaf sheath armed with spines to 10mm long. Leaves, armed with triangular claws, to 3.5m including petiole & cirrus, cirrus to 1.5m long, 55 pairs of bristly leaflets to 350mm x 10mm. Pendulous infructescence to 500mm long, fruit 15mm x 10mm with a short beak & covered in 15 rows of scales.