Pandanus odorifer (Forssk.) Kuntze.

Palm-like dioecious tree ; up to 4-8 m tall , with a flexuous trunk . Stems slender , branching . Leaves in clusters at the branch tips , 40–70 cm . long , with rosettes of sword-shaped , stiff (leather-like) and spiny bluish-green , fragrant , glaucous . Inflorescences panicles , in dense cylindrical spikes . Flowers sweet fragrant , dioecious . Male flowers: fragrant , in dense cylindrical spikes organized into panicles ; axis of inflorescence (incomplete) 14 cm long with 6 branch , each subtended by conspicuous large off-white (near base) or smaller brownish spathe-like bract ; bract linear with long-attenuate apex (lowest) to broadly ovate and acute (upper) , the lowermost the largest , 73–75 cm long and 5 . 3–5 . 6 cm wide , the uppermost smallest and 6–26 cm long and 0 . 4–3 . 6 cm wide , all bearing marginal prickles 0 . 2–3 mm long , midrib on lower surface with minute prickles pointing upwards ; secondary inflorescence branch cylindrical , 6–8 cm long , 2–3 cm in diameter , densely packed with numerous tertiary branch to 12 mm long , ... each subtended by a bract 10–20 0 . 2–1 . 5 mm , each branch bearing along its length up to 21 stamens , ± evenly distributed or sometimes in whorls ; occasionally with almost second order branching ; filaments 0 . 5–1 . 2 mm long ; anther ellipsoid , 2 . 7–4 . 4 mm long , apex acuminate , creamy white . Female flowers: pedunculate , peduncle 10–30 cm long , bracteate with the upper bract whitish ; flowers in a cephalium , a dense globose or ellipsoid head . Fruit Syncarp , globose or ellipsoid , 15–20(30) cm long , 12–18(20) cm in diameter , rounded-trigonal , of (26)50–70(143) carpellate phalanges , each 3–8 cm long and 2 . 5–4 . 5 cm across , each composed of 4–10 fused carpels which each have a V- or U-shaped stigma ; ripe syncarp red-orange . (Ref . POWO ; 2023) .

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Least Concern (LC) - Global Assessment

Not Common

Keura odorifera Forssk.
Pandanus verus Rumph. ex Kurz