Climbing palm with stems to 12m, leaves to 1.5m covered in brown tomentum with sheath 300mm long spiny towards apex, up to 13 leaflets in opposite or subopposite clusters leaflet, margins unarmed, spadix 600mm long with branchlets to 125mm, spiny spathe with bracts to 25mm long, calyx 4mm long, yellow corolla 8mm long with lobes 7mm x 2mm, orange fruit