Pinanga adangensis Ridl.

Stems clustered, to 8 m tall, 4–5 cm diameter, green. Leaves pinnate; sheaths 30–60 cm long, whitish-green to yellowish with purplish hairs; petioles 30–50 cm long; rachis to 2 m long; pinnae to 26 per side of rachis, green abaxially, linear, regularly arranged, closely spaced, the middle ones 50–65 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide. Inflorescences pendulous; peduncles 3.5–4 cm long, 1 cm wide; rachis 3.5–4 cm long; rachillae 5–7, 18–35 cm long, zig-zag, triangular in cross-section, glabrous; triads arranged distichously, superficial on the rachillae. Male flowers not seen; female flowers to 3 mm long; sepals to 3 mm long, rounded at the apices, hairy on the margins; petals to 3 mm long, ciliate. Fruits ovoid to obovoid, 1–1.8 cm long, 0.6–1.2 cm diameter, ripening red to purple-black.