Aphandra is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the palm family native to the Amazon rainforest vegetation in South America (Ecuador, Brazil, and Peru).

Aphandra natalia grows from single trunks, reaching over 12 m in height, being gray to tan in color.

The vine-like, pendent fibers of the leaf bases resemble those of Leopoldinia piassaba from which brooms are also made.

A mature infructescence resembles "a medieval club with spikes if the large amount of hairy black fiber was removed".

[1] A. natalia grows in eastern Ecuador through northern Peru to western Brazil reaching altitudes of 800 m. They are an under-story palm in the Amazon rainforest stretching to the foothills of the Andes.