• Family : PANDANACEAE
  (Screw-Pine Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KEVARA FAMILY (केवड़ा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PANDANACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Pandanus odoratissimus L.f.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pandanus odorifer (Forssk.) Kuntze
• Common name : Screw pine
• Vernacular name : Kedege (Kannada); Keya (Oria); Kewda, Kevra, Ketki, Gagandhul (Hindi); Mugali (Male flowers), Gajangi (Telugu)
• Habit : Shrub
• Comments / notes : Often on plains by streams, arable lands and dense thickets. Sometimes also cultivated. Wild in deltaic swamps. The male plant is a source of scented flowers used in making Kewda (perfumes).
• Flower, Fruit : -uly onwards
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district, East Godavari district, Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district
  • Odisha : Balasore district, Cuttack district, Boudh district, Nayagarh district, Puri district, Ganjam district and Cultivated
  • Tamil Nadu : Cuddalore district
• World Distribution : India, Mynmar, Java, Malesia, China, Moluccas, Polynesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3. pp. 1018.
• 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 fascicularis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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