Pholidocarpus  

Tall, solitary palm, hermaphroditic. Stem erect, ringed with inconspicuous leaf scars. Leaf costa palmate, induplicate; sheath dissolving in mesh of reddish brown fibres; petiole elongate, often with two conspicuous, yellowish stripes, armed along the margins with very long, robust, horizontal, basally swollen spines; adaxial hastula conspicuous, triangular, abaxial hastula inconspicuous or lacking; blade deeply splitting into 3–4 folded segment groups along adaxial ribs almost to the hastula, individual segments futher divided to ½–2/3 the radius into single-folded, apically indented segments. Inflorescence interfoliar; branched to 4 orders; peduncular bracts 1–6, conspicuous, tubular; rachis longer than peduncle; rachis bracts tubular; rachillae with spirally arranged flowers, solitary or in groups of 2–3. Flower sessile on low tubercles, calyx shallowly cup-shaped; petals free; stamens 6, connate to form a conspicuous tube, free from the corolla; gynoecium hairy, united apically in slender style. Fruit one-seeded, large, orange to brown, globose; epicarp smooth or cracked in Thai species into numerous corky warts; mesocarp thick, more or less fleshy, orange; endocarp crustaceous. Seed with thick, homogeneous endosperm, penetrated laterally by a convoluted intrusion of the seed coat. Germination remote-tubular.

Six species in Peninsular Thailand to Malesia.  One species in Thailand.