A dioecious, dichotomously-branched palm with crowded fan-shaped leaves. Male and female inflorescences are similar, except that male flowers are arranged in groups of three while female flowers are solitary. Fruit is a bumpy, broadly cylindrical to subglobose nut that has a smooth epicarp, fibrous, sweet mesocarp and a hard and bony endocarp that encloses an ovoid-globose seed.
Nile region (Qena, Aswan), oases, eastern desert, Res Sea coastal strip and Sinai.
Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia.
Alluvial and sandy soils.
Perennial
