Genus: 1 species.
Region: Samoa.
Habitat: in wet, mountainous, montane rain and cloud forests, exceeding 500 m.
BotanyTree.
Stem: trunk solitary, ringed, brown, no more than 8 cm wide.
Leaves: sheath of the pinnate leaf is extended, wrapping around the trunk to form a tall, slender crownshaft; petiole is short; rachis thin, bears regularly spaced, reduplicate leaflets with a prominent midrib and jagged ends.
Inflorescence: emerges below the crownshaft, initially enclosed by a prophyll, with a single peduncular bract.
Flowers: monoecious; staminate and pistillate; borne on the rachillae as triads of two males surrounding one female.
Fruit: fleshy and red when ripe; wrinkled when dry; with 1 seed.
Seed: with homogeneous endosperm.