Family: Pandanaceae
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Pandanus columbiformis B.C.Stone
Type of Pandanus columbiformis B.C.Stone
Collector/Expedition: Stone, Benjamin Clement
Collection number: LAE 53431
Collection date: 29th April 1971
Country/Territory: Papua New Guinea:Gulf
Collecting locality: Papua New Guinea:Gulf:Lepokira, Vailala East, Kerema Sub-Dist.
Habitat: Lowland freshwater swamp forest
Description: Solitary scattered trees with straight erecttrunks branched above and with long, nearly erect proproots at base. Height 45', bole 6' above props, d.b.h. 6.5 ins. Bark brownish with +/- small nubbly prickles; wood dull white, fibrous. Mature leaves about 200 x 7.5 cm, glaucous beneath, medium or light green above. A-V pleats sometimes armed. Inflorescence solitary, terminal, pendulous. Fruit ovoid, rather acute, rounded-trigonal in cross section, with dry bracts. Carpels yellow with brown tip, lower pericarp fleshy.
Miscellaneous notes: Eaten by Cus-cus and Cassowary.
Kind of specimen: HERBARIUM SHEET
Barcode: E00438152
Cite as: https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00438152
Herbarium region: 6E (New Guinea)
Number of sheets: 1
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