The genus name is dedicated to Baron Livingstone (born Patrick Murray), a collector of plants of the seventeenth century with its donations created the first nucleus of the Botanical Garden of Edinburgh. The specific adjective denoting its origin linked to the Far East (China, Taiwan and Japan). This palm has a single slender stalk (30-40 cm in diameter) reaching a maximum of 12 m, enlarged at the base, brown or gray. Below is characterized by the presence of leaf scars are horizontal and vertical slits.
The foliage consists of fan-shaped leaves, glaucous green, with petiole shorter than the blade and serrated margins in basal half, with green teeth. It extends in a flap by ligule and partially envelops the trunk of a thick fabric, red-brown. The segments, the number of 50-60, have an apex deeply divided longitudinally, typically flaccid and sagging, they are separated by deep incisions up to 2 / 3 of the lamina. 
The inflorescences are shorter and the leaves are wrapped at the base by Spathes green-brown paper. The fruit is shiny, scruro first green, then blue-blue when mature, measuring up to 2.5 cm, and oliviforme weakly mucronate. 
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