Trachycarpus oreophilus Gibbons & Spanner

Solitary polygamo-dioecious palm. Stem up to 9 m tall at maturity, 10–16 cm diam., erect, naked, conspicuously ringed. Leaves 20–25 in crown; sheath c. 25–30 cm long dissolving in spreading fine fibres; petiole 40–50 cm long, margins minutely toothed and somewhat tomentose; adaxial hastula prominent to 3 cm long; blade rounded in outline, moderately undulate to flat, 90–110 cm diam., evenly splitting to c. ½ radius, into 60–90, single-folded segments, individual segments shortly indented, green adaxially, glaucous green abaxially. Inflorescences 3–5 on one palm, arching, prophyll 15–25 cm long, peduncular bracts and rachis bracts similar, 15–35 cm long, decreasing in length towards the distal parts, tubular proximally, inflated distally; male inflorescences 30–50 cm long, with 15–20 cm long peduncle; female (sometimes hermaphroditic?) inflorescences 80–100 cm long, with 30-50 cm long peduncle; rachillae 3–10 cm long, stiff. Flowers minute in bud. Fruit kidney-shaped, 0.6–0.8 cm long and 10–12 cm wide, yellow to yellowish brown at maturity.