Family
Pandanaceae
Genus
Benstonea
Specific Epithet
epiphytica
Authorship
(Martelli) Callm. & Buerki
3/28/2012
Location
Malaysia, Sarawak
1.722528, 110.448639
Location Remarks
Kuching. Bako National Park. Lintang Trail, 106 m elev.
Collectors
S. Buerki, C. Davidson, S. Christoph, A. Ak Ginan, Y. Bin H. J. Wat
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.