Scirpodendron

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Scirpodendron

Description

Stout perennial herbs, with woody, obliquely erect rhizome, in habit strongly resembling a small Pandanus. Leaves 3-ranked, with short, open sheaths and very long linear blades. Inflorescence terminal, paniculate, branched in the lower half, the lowest branches ternate, sometimes branched again. Flowers hermaphrodite; Fruit drupaceous, coarsely ribbed;

Distribution

Australasia, Ceylon present, Polynesia present
Monotypic genus, extending from Ceylon to Australia and Polynesia.

Citation

VON POST & O.K. 1904: Lexic. Gen. Phan.: 470
H. PFEIFF. 1925 – In: Fedde, Rep. 21: 240
LINDL. 1846: Veg. Kingd.: 119