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Pandanaceae - Screw-pine family
Beentje, H.J. (2009) Pandanaceae Flora Zambesiaca 12(2)
Leistner, O.A. (2005) Seed plants of southern tropical Africa: families and genera SABONET Report No. 26 SABONET, Pretoria
Description of the family
Dioecious trees or shrubs, often with proproots near the base. Branches with leaf scars. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, in 3 ranks, appearing as a spiral (hence the name, screw pines), glabrous, entire but armed on the margins, sometimes with prickles on the adaxial side of the midrib. Inflorescences terminal, many-flowered. Flowers unisexual, rudimentary. Male flowers: stamens many; anthers 2-thecous. Female flowers of several 1-locular carpels. Fruiting inflorescence of many drupes crowded into a large subspherical to ellipsoid structure. Worldwide: 3 genera and 875 species in the Old World tropics to New Zealand Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated genus and 1 cultivated taxon. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): PandanaceaeBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Pandanaceae
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Pandanaceae
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Pandanaceae
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