Salacca stolonifera Hodel

Loosly clustering understorey palm, up to 4 m tall. Stems creeping to shortly erect, with conspicuous aerial roots. Leaves 6–9 per stem; sheath 30–60 cm long, deeply split, densely covered with brownish, felt-like indument and armed with up to 4 cm long slender black spines, arranged in horizontal groups of 3–7 basally to paired or solitary towards the petiole; petiole c. 1.2 m long; rachis 2–2.5 m long, armed abaxially with solitary or paired spines to 1.5 cm long; leaflets 15–17 per side, clustered in sub-opposite groups of 2–3 and pointing in different directions, sigmoid, c. 50 x 5 cm, long acuminate, apical pair of leaflets coherent, not split. Male inflorescence lateral, emerging though groove on the abaxial side of the leaf base, to 4 m long, whip-like, with c. 3 partial inflorescences, these reddish, spike-like and up to 20 cm long, with hairs projecting from the subtending bracts; female inflorescences not seen. Fruits ellipsoid to obovoid, densely covered in spine-like scales.