Family
Pandanaceae
Genus
Benstonea
Specific Epithet
epiphytica
Authorship
(Martelli) Callm. & Buerki
Record Number
Callmander, M 1014
Collection Date
3/28/2012
Field Notes
Very common on sandstone boulders, normally epiphitic, occasionally terrestrial. Massive Pandans with short erect trunk covered with old persistant sheaths. Leaves erect, yellow in the center of clump, to 3-4 cm long. Infrutescence erect, 80-90 cm long, bearing 9 cylindric syncarps on a robust peduncle, 60 cm in length, 4.5 cm wide at apex. Syncarp, subcylindric, 4 cm x 20-25 cm; drupes 1 cm long, 0.2 cm wide. Stigma flat, rounded, brown, 0.5 cm in diam.