Entry for PANDANUS livingstonianus Rendle [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 livingstonianusRendle [family PANDANACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1894, 326. —Warb. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Pandan. 66.
Information
Upper leaves with upwardly curved teeth on the margins only, the lower ones on the midrib also. Syncarps ovate, 5 in. long, 3 in. in diam. Drupes 5-angled, flat and 6–7 lin. across at the top, with a central subobtuse umbo.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Zambesi Delta; mouth of the Luabo River, Kirk!
Notes
This may be (as suggested by Dr. Rendle, l.c.) the species referred to by Livingstone (The Zambesi and its Tributaries, 19), which from the plate appears to be a tree 40–50 ft. high supported for a height of 8–9 ft. by forking roots.
