Elieocdoxa  

Moderate-sized, clustering, hapaxanthic, dioecious palm. Stem subterranean with short internodes, obscured by the persistent leaf bases. Leaves pinnate; leaf sheath open, not forming a crownshaft, armed with neat partial whorls of robust spines, except at the extreme base; petiole elongate, armed like leaf sheath; leaflets single-fold, linear to lanceolate in outline, equally spaced and oriented in one plane. Inflorescences gathered at a terminal position, erect in the centre of the crown, individual inflorescences (lateral) subtended by a highly reduced leaf, compact, shortly pedunculate, slightly dimorphic; prophyll short, quickly tattering. Flowers borne in dyads, enclosed by a tight spiral of imbricate subtending bracts in bud, exerted at anthesis; male flowers pinkish at anthesis, calyx tubular, 3-lobed; corolla tubular at the base, bearing 3, triangular, valvate lobes; stamens 6, borne at the mouth of corolla tube, filament fleshy, elongate, anthers elongate. Female flowers coupled with a sterile male flower in dyads, superficially similar to male flowers but larger, staminodes 6, gynoecium tri-carpellate, tri-ovulate, covered with flattened scales, stigmas 3. Fruit mostly 1-seeded, with a narrow base, otherwise irregularly shaped, with apical stigmatic remains; epicarp covered in neat vertical rows of reflexed scales, the scale tips spinelike and upward pointing, mesocarp spongy, endocarp not differentiated. Seed with thick sarcotesta, endosperm homogeneous, the apex with a pit. Germination adjacent ligular; eophyll entire, bifid.

One species from Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia to Borneo and Sumatra.