- Family : PANDANACEAE
(Screw-Pine Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KEVARA FAMILY (केवड़ा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Pandanaceae
- Synonym(s) : Rykia furcata (Roxb.) de Vriese; Barrotia diodon Gaudich.; Pandanus crassipes Wall. ex Balf.f.; Pandanus diodon (Gaudich.) Martelli; Pandanus furcatus var. indica Kurz; Pandanus furcatus var. macrocarpus Schaedtler; Pandanus horridus Reinw. ex Blume; Pandanus nepalensis H.St.John; Pandanus spinifructus Dennst.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Pandanus furcatus Roxb.
- Habit : Shrub or Tree
- Habitat : Along river banks
- Key identification features : Robust, stilt roots near base; Leaves large, trifarious, narrow, acuminate, coriaceous, subglaucous, curved, margins spinously toothed.;Spathes gloden-yellow, coriaceous; Flowers in axillary or terminal spadices; Drupes fleshy, ellipsoid, 5-6 angled.
- Flower, Fruit : October-April
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Pune district, Sindhudurg district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : West Bengal
- Arunachal Pradesh : Siang, Subansiri, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
- 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.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 227
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pandanus furcatus. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.
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