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Pandanus aquaticus (native name andjimdjim) is a pandan, or screw pine (family Pandanaceae) endemic to the more humid regions of Northern Territory of Australia. It is confined to the river shallows and areas subject to flooding. It is a small tree to about twenty feet (six meters) in height.
Pandanaceae is a family of flowering plants native to the tropics and subtropics of the Old World, from West Africa to the Pacific.It contains 982 known species [2] in five genera, [3] of which the type genus, Pandanus, is the most important, with species like Pandanus amaryllifolius and karuka (Pandanus julianettii) being important sources of food.
Pandanus is a genus of monocots with about 578 accepted species. [1] They are palm-like, dioecious trees and shrubs native to the Old World tropics and subtropics. Common names include pandan, screw palm and screw pine. They are classified in the order Pandanales, family Pandanaceae. [2] [3]
Pandanus aridus is a species of shrub or small tree in the family Pandanaceae. It is native and endemic to Madagascar , [ 2 ] found in fragmented locations in the southern third of the country. Pandanus aridus H. St. John is the accepted name, with a synonym of Pandanus toliarensi s Huynh.
A small freely-branching tree of 6–8 metres (20–26 ft), the ends of its branches can droop downwards. Its leaves are grey-green, and its bark is grey-pink. It can also be distinguished from the several other species of Mauritian Pandanus by its 15-centimetre (5.9 in) hanging fruit-heads that each have 250–450 protruding drupes (the upper ...
These have reddish-orange marginal spines only near the tip of the leaf, and not near the leaf base. (Pandanus rigidifolius is the only other local species of Pandanus to have rigid, incurved leaves but it is a smaller decumbent species and its leaves are smaller and replicate.) The large (20–25 cm) fruit-head is held erect on a short peduncle.
1900 illustration of part of a drupe from a Pandanus eydouxia fruit-head. A tall (10-12m) branching tree that forms a wide, domed canopy. The 20–25 cm wide trunk is grey and cracked, while younger stems bear brown leaf-scars. The stems are lined with many small, sharp knobs. [3]
Pandanus columnaris is a columnar tree, up to 20 m (66 ft) tall, with light brown bark and a spiny trunk up to 25 cm (9.8 in) in diameter. The crown of the tree is cylindric, with spirals of large leaves at the top and with short secondary branchlets below.