Family Name

PANDANACEAE

Scientific Name

Freycinetia sp.  

Synonyms

No synonym

Local Names

Ayas-as baging (Tag.)

Botanical Description

A twining root climber. Stem 0.4- 0. 7 cm or more in diameter, without exudate, striated, glabrous. Leaves spirally arranged, crowded at the terminal portion of the stem, simple, elongate, linear to lanceolate, apex acuminate, base shallowly attenuate; blade 11 – 24 cm long, 1.2 – 3.2 cm broad, glabrous, shiny and coriaceous; venation parallel. Inflorescence in cluster of terminal spadices. Fruit syncarpous, globose, cylindric, or ovoid, composed of numerous dense drupes; drupes ovoid or irregularly angled with asymmetric edges. Seed cylindric.  

Distribution Ecology

Found in primary and secondary forest at low and medium altitudes.  

Other Economic Uses

No information available

Volume Estimate

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Other Plant Notes

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