Pinanga simplicifrons (Miq.) Becc.

Stems clustered, 1.5 m tall, 0.8–1.5 cm diameter, brown. Leaves pinnate or undivided; sheaths 10–20 cm long, greenish-brown, persisting and disintegrating while still on the stem; petioles 7.5–30 cm long; rachis 0.2–0.3 m long; pinnae 2–4 per side of rachis, or blade undivided, lighter green abaxially, pinnae of pinnate leaves falcate, irregularly arranged, closely spaced, the middle ones to 20 cm long, 5 cm wide. Inflorescences pendulous, covered with persistent prophyll and bursting through the persistent leaf sheaths; peduncles c. 1 cm long, 0.3 cm wide; rachis very short or absent; rachillae 1–2, 2–2.5 cm long, zig-zag, flattened in cross-section, glabrous; triads arranged distichously, superficial on the rachillae. Male flowers 7–8 mm long, not pedicellate; sepals forming a 3-lobed cupule, c. 2 mm high; petals 6–7 mm long, narrowly triangular, valvate; stamens c. 11; female flowers c. 2.5 mm long; sepals c. 2 mm long, rounded at the apices, ciliate; petals c. 2 mm long, ciliate. Fruits ovoid, often curved, to 2 cm long and 1 cm diameter, red.