Description: Stout palms.
Leaves pinnate, with sheathing leaf bases forming a rather loose crownshaft.
Inflorescences panicle-like, much branched, borne below the crownshaft. Flowers sessile on notched rachillas, in groups of 3, with 2 male laterally and 1 female between them, the latter developing later.
Fruit globose.
Distribution and occurrence: Endemic to Lord Howe Island; 1 species.
Text by KL Wilson (Jan 2013)
Taxon concept: PS Green (1994) Flora of Australia vol. 49
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