Pandanus tectorius

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Family Pandanaceae

Taxonomy: Pandanus tectorius Parkinson

Synonyms: 24 (APC 2026-07-30)

Pandanus adscendens H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus blakei H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus bowenensis H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus brownii H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus extralittoralis H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus heronensis H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus hubbardii H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus oblatiapicalis H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus pedunculatus R.Br. (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus sinuvadensis W.E.Cooper (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus sinuvadosus H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus stradbrokensis H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus stradbrookeensis H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus tectorius var. australianus Martelli (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus tectorius var. cocosensis B.C.Stone (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus tectorius var. heronensis (H.St.John) B.C.Stone (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus tectorius var. pedunculatus (R.Br.) Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus tectorius var. stradbrokensis (H.St.John) B.C.Stone (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus tectorius var. stradbrookeensis B.C.Stone (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus tectorius var. yorkensis (H.St.John) B.C.Stone (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus terrae-reginae H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus terrireginae H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus viridinsularis H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)
Pandanus yorkensis H.St.John (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Pandanus odoratissimus L.f. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): CoI, Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (7), ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (11), Kew_2019_3 (3), Kew_2019_5 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (11), NSWFRD_2014 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2023 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (17). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 77 records in 15 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 44.5 mm (38-51 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 34.5 mm (20-49 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2); multiple_fruit (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 1250 mm (1000-1500 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 72.5 mm (50-100 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): ensiform (1); linear (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin_posture (categorical): revolute (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): glaucous (1); not_glaucous (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1); spiral (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
plant_growth_form (categorical): basal_large (1); palmoid (2); shrub (3); tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
pollination_system (categorical): insect (1); wind (1) [sources: Stephens_2023]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (2) [sources: Kew_2019_5; NSWFRD_2014]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NSWFRD_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 20 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 8.33 m (5-12 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	11	17	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_2013	8	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_2023	10	11	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	9	9	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
ABRS_2023	6	7	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Kew_2019_3	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Kew_2019_5	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_2	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Stephens_2023	1	1	R. E. Stephens, R. V. Gallagher, L. Dun, W. Cornwell, and H. Sauquet. “Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history”. New Phytologist 240.2 (2023), pp. 880-891. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.18993.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.