 There are 6–15 bright green to silvery green pinnately compound (feather-like) leaves long, with each leaflet about long.Its fruits are yellowish green and shaped like small coconuts, about long and in diameter.The generic name of the seashore palm, "Allogoptera", comes from the Ancient Greek words ('), meaning change, and ('), meaning wing, and refers to the swirled, changing pattern of the feathery leaves.