- Family : PANDANACEAE
(Screw-Pine Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KEVARA FAMILY (केवड़ा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : PANDANACEAE
- Synonym(s) : Keura odorifera Forssk.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pandanus odorifer (Forssk.) Kuntze
- Common name : Fragrant screwpine, Screwpine, Screw tree, Umbrella tree
- Vernacular name : Keura (Marathi); Thazhambu, Pookaitha, Kaitha, Kainari, Thala (Malayalam)
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Mangrove forests and sea coasts
- Flower, Fruit : March-December
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Jalgaon district, Kolhapur district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- World Distribution : Tropical and Sub Tropical Asia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; 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 odoratissimus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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