Botanical Family · Pandanales

Pandanaceae

Screw-Pine Family

6 speciesOrder Pandanales6+ well-known plants

The Pandanaceae family (Screw-Pine Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Pandanales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 6 species. Its members are predominantly shrubs. Familiar examples include Pandan, padang and Himalayan Screw Pine.

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Representative specimen · Pandanaceae

Key pattern

Long, narrow, spine-edged leaves spiralling densely around the stem in three ranks, often supported above ground by stout stilt roots; tiny unisexual flowers crowd onto a spike that ripens into a large, pineapple-like head of woody fruiting segments.

The leaves' tight, spiral, screw-like arrangement around the stem — visible from a distance — gives the whole family both its common and scientific name.

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HabitWhat is the plant's growth habit?

Shrub

Tree

Family identification method

To check whether a plant belongs to Pandanaceae, compare the leaf arrangement, leaf type, flower symmetry, fruit type, and one distinctive marker together. A single feature can mislead; the family pattern is the combination.

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