Pandanaceae

Pandanaceae R.Br., Prodr. 340. 1810. nom. cons. 'Screw-Pine Family'

Salient Features

Members are dioeciou, sympodially branched large shrubs, trees or climbers with scars of leaf bases, prop roots present.
Leaves 3 or 4-ranked, simple, acrocaulis, linear to ensiform.
Inflorescence a spadix.
Flowers minute, naked, unisexual, male flowers with many stamens, female flowers with many free or united carpels.
Fruit a berry or drupe, multiple in some.

Diversity:

World- 4 genera, 1062 species (The Plant List 2013); 5 genera, 982 species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016); 5 genera, 575 species (Mabberley 2017); 5 genera, 979 species (Roskov et al. 2021)
India - 2 genera, 17 species (Karthikeyan 2000); 3 genera, 22 species (BSI, 2021)
Indian Himalaya- 1 genera, 5 species (Singh et al. 2019)
Uttarakhand - 1 genus, 2 species (Uniyal et al. 2007)

General Characters:

Pandanaceae in Watson & Dallwitz (1992 onwards)
Pandanaceae in Stevens (2001 onwards)
Pandanaceae in POWO 2021 (Plants of the World Online)
Pandanaceae in Wikipedia

Systematic Position of Family in Different Systems of Classifications:

Systematic position in 2-Superkingdom, 7-Kingdom classification of Ruggiero et al. (2015)

Super Kingdom- Eukaryota, Kingdom- Plantae, Subkingdom- Viridiplantae, Infrakingdom- Streptophyta, Superphylum- Embryophyta, Phylum- Tracheophyta, Subphylum- Spermatophytina, Superclass- Angiospermae, Class- Magnoliopsida, Superorder- Lilianae, Order- Pandanales

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83)

Class : Monocotyledons
Series : Nudiflorae

Engler & Prantl (1887-1915)

Kingdom : Plantae
Division : Embryophyta Siphonogama
Subdivision : Angiospermae
Class : Monocotyledoneae
Order : Pandanales

Hutchinson (1973)

Phylum : Angiospermae
Subphylum : Monocotyledones
Division : Corolliferae
Order : Pandanales

Cronquist (1988)

Division : Magnoliophyta
Class : Liliopsida
Subclass : Arecidae
Order : Pandanales

Thorne & Reveal (2007)

Class : Magnoliopsida
Subclass : Liliidae
Super Order: Pandananae
Order : Pandanales

Takhtajan (2009)

Phylum : Magnoliophyta
Class : Lilliopsida
Subclass : Liliidae
Super Order : Pandananae
Order : Pandanales

Reveal (2012)

Class : Equisetopsida
Subclass : Magnoliidae
Super Order : Lilianae
Order : Pandanales

APG-IV (2016)

Clade : Angiosperms
Clade : Monocots
Order : Pandanales

Shipunov (2020)

Class : Angiospermae
Subclass : Liliidae
Order : Liliales
Suborder : Cylanthineae

Genera & Species in Pantnagar

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