Leaves purple, subsessile, lanceolate, 3-nerved, acuminate, subentire, glabrous. Leaves are basal, glossy and somewhat deeply veined, ovate and acuminate. Usually they are serrate, rounded at base, acute or acuminate. The lanceolate shaped bractlets are in two series, with the apices acuminate in shape. The leaves are glabrous (smooth) and acuminate in shape, with entire (smooth) edges. They are simple, membranous, orbicular to elliptic and acuminate. Bases are attenuate while apexes are acute, acuminate, or obtuse. The floral bracts are numerous (10 - 20), long, reddish (sometimes white) with acuminate apex. The leaf apex is acute to acuminate. Leaves are evergreen, oblong and pinnatifid with acuminate tips. May. The lamina margin is strongly toothed, with an acuminate point. The apexes are acuminate to sub-acuminate. This cycad contains reddish seed cones with a distinct acuminate tip. The leaves are elliptical with an acuminate tip and a rounded base.