Wallichia  

Small monoecious, understorey palms to small trees. Stems clustered, rarely solitary. Leaves usually few in crown, separated by long internodes, spirally or distichously arranged, leaf sheath elongate, ligulate, disintegrating in fibrous mesh, petiole rounded in cross section, pinnae induplicate, lanceolate, entire to irregulalrly lobed, praemorse, leaf apex composed of several unsplit pinnae. Inflorescence spicate or branched to one order, peduncular bracts numerous, chartaceous, brown tomentose, male inflorescences lateral, flower clusters spirally arranged, composed of two male flowers flanking an aborted female flower, petals free, stamens 3–19, pistillode absent; female inflorescence terminal, with spirally arranged solitary flowers, petals fused into three-lobed corolla, staminodes absent. Fruit ovoid to oblong, with apical stigmatic residue.

Eight species in Himalaya to S China. Three species in Thailand.