Name: from Greek, clino meaning slanted, sperma meaning seed, barctealis from Latin meaning with bracts.
Region: New Caledonia, Melanesia, Pacific Ocean.
Botany: palm, to 15 m tall; trunk solitary, gray to tan, uniform 10 cm diameter, ringed by leaf scars; leaves pinnate, ± 12, crownshaft 60 cm, hanging to one side, giving it a triangle shape; usually covered in a hairy tomentum, white wax, brown to green to white; leaves recurving at its end, 1.5 m long on 30 cm petioles; pinnae stiff, once-folded, prominent midrib, 90 cm long, regularly arranged along the rachis; inflorescence infrafoliar; flowers small, white to yellow, unisexual, basally divided to three orders and distally to one; female flowers are nearly twice as long as the male's, both contain three distinct sepals and petals, the former with 3 staminodes, the latter with 6 stamens; fruit globose, ripen from shiny green to black, each with one light brown seed; habitat rain forests, in schists, serpentine soil.