• Family : PANDANACEAE
  (Screw-Pine Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KEVARA FAMILY (केवड़ा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PANDANACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Pandanus unipapillatus Dennst.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pandanus canaranus Warb.
• Vernacular name : Thazhai (Tamil); Thazakaida (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Along banks of streams
• Comments / notes : Often on hills above 900m
• Flower, Fruit : July-October
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Tamil Nadu : Hill of Tamil Nadu
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pandanus canaranus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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