Pandanaceae FAMILY
Pandanus kaernbachii
Pandanus kaernbachii
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Pandanus kaernbachii is a spiny evergreen tree growing around 10 metres tall. The stem is branched, with the sword-shaped leaves arranged in rosettes at the tips of branches. The trunk has prop roots around 2 - 5 metres high[ 1814 Title Pandanaceae of the island of Yapen, Papua (West new Guinea), Indonesia, with their nomenclature and notes on the red Publication Blumea 54, 2009: 255-266 Author Keim A.P. Website http://10.3767/000651909X476247 Publisher Year 2009 ISBN Description ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a source of materials
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeSoutheast Asia - Indonesia from Maluku eastwards to New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago.
HabitatCoastal and freshwater swamp[ 1814 Title Pandanaceae of the island of Yapen, Papua (West new Guinea), Indonesia, with their nomenclature and notes on the red Publication Blumea 54, 2009: 255-266 Author Keim A.P. Website http://10.3767/000651909X476247 Publisher Year 2009 ISBN Description ]. Abundant in the substage of flood-plain rain-forests[ 574 Title Journal of the Arnold Arboretum Vol. 20 Publication Author Rehder A. (Editor) Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Harvard University Year 1939 ISBN Description Includes a treatment of the Papuasian Freycinetia. It can be downloded from the Internet. ].