Encephalartos paucidentatus as the name says, few teeth

Living up to its name, Encephalartos paucidentatus bears few marginal teeth on its leaflets. There are only one to three on a margin. The short, sharp teeth are angled forward to the leaflet tip.

Leaflet bases are pale at the rachis and taper obliquely, maybe not narrow enough to warrant the back ends of leaflets being called petioles, or since they are leaflets, petiolules. Or some may decide that the yellowish parts constitute short petiolules. 

Some minuscule, nodular blade protuberances are discernible, unevenly scattered in the dull sheen of the dark green leaflet upper surfaces. Leaflets are stiff, leathery in its harder sense.

The leaflets lie in one plane with their margins near each other or touching with very little overlap. Leaflet pairs are in some cases opposite each other, grading in others to subopposite (Hugo, 2014; Coates Palgrave, 2002; Schmidt, et al, 2002; iNaturalist).