Very large palms up to ca. 20 m or more tall; trunk very heavy to moderate, gray, smooth, ca. 50 or more cm in diameter, crown rather large, with more than 40 leaves.
Leaves
Leaf blades waxy-glaucous to pale green, lower surface with scattered grayish lepidia, lower costae at base of blades and petioles glabrous or early sparsely fugacious lepidote, petioles lax, flexible, with light-colored, paleaceous, appressed scales on upper portion of lower surface, at first lightly covered with light-colored appressed scales on upper surface.
Flowers
Inflorescences equalling or shorter than petioles, panicles rather large, glabrous throughout, divided into several spreading primary branches, lowermost panicle branches with up to 10-12 spirally arranged branchlets, the lowest of which is sometimes divided again, or are forked, upper branches simple; rachillae glabrous, subulate apically, with flowers uncrowded, spirally arranged, each of which is subtended by a very small bracteole 2-3 mm long; prophyll and peduncular bracts very sparsely and inconspicuously lepidote, usually glabrate.
Fruit
Fruit unknown, but predicted to belong to the small, globose-fruited group of species more closely related to the P. remota complex.
