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Pandanus candelabrum

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Identification
Pandanus candelabrum P.Beauv. [family PANDANACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pandanus candelabrum
Common name
  • a-tìn (FG&G) (GUINEA, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • fanjani (DAP) (THE GAMBIA, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • pandan., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • Le (SIERRA LEONE, FULA-PULAAR (Sierra), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • pandan (from Malay); screw-pine., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • pamba (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, BULOM (Kim)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • hu lil (JB) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • fanjano (auctt.) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • gi-tis (FG&G) (SENEGAL, BEDIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • Gambia) fanjani (DAP) (THE GAMBIA, FULA-PULAAR (The), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for PANDANUS Candelabrum Beauv. [family PANDANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 127, (1902) Author: (By C. H. Wright.)
Names
PANDANUS Candelabrum Beauv. [family PANDANACEAE], Fl. Owar. i. 37, tt. 21–22. —Lam. Encycl. Suppl. i. 576; Spreng. Syst. iii. 898; Kunth, Enum. iii. 96; Solms-Laub. in Linnæa, xlii. 27; Balf. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 43; Gurich in Mitth. Afr. Gesell. in Deutsch. v. 51; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1894, 321; Warb. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Pandan. 67.
Tuckeya Candelabrum Gaud. [family ], Voy. Bonite, Bot. Atlas, t. 26, figs. 10–20.
Information
A branched tree. Stem erect, supported in the lower part by aërial roots; lower branches horizontal, upper erect. Leaves glaucous, wide, acuminate, with sharp spines on the midrib and margins. Male spadices oblong-cylindric, white, fragrant; spathes longer than the spadices, narrowed to an acute apex, spiny on the margins and back of the midrib. Stamens about 12, subumbellate. Female spadix subovate. Spathes similar to those of the male, but much shorter. Drupes 1- (rarely 2–3-) celled; stigma flat, irregularly subcordate.
Distribution
Niger Upper Guinea Banks of the River Formosa, near Agathon, Beauvois. Cameroon Mountains, Mann, 2!
Notes
A male inflorescence from Ambas Bay (Mann, 780), probably belongs to this species.

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