The fibres are manufactured into ropes, brushes, brooms, baskets. From the pith a good variety of "sago" is obtained which is highly nutritious. Toddy is also obtained from this palm. Terminal bud is edible.

നാര്, കയർ, ബ്രഷ്, ചൂൽ, കൊട്ട എന്നിവ നെയ്യാൻ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു.

Monoecious stout tall palms, trunk smooth with prominent annular leaf-scars.  Leaves bipinnate.  Spadix interfoliar, shortly peduncled, pendulous; spathes few.  Flowers many, in triads with female flower in the middle.  Sepals 3, rounded, imbricate.  Petals linear-oblong, valvate.  Stamens many.  Ovary 3-celled, 3-gonous; ovule 1-per locule.  Fruit globose, reddish purple; seeds plano-convex, subreniform.