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Benstonea lauterbachii
Lauterbach's pandan is a shrub or small tree up to about 15 m, native to the wet tropics of northern Queensland's Cape York Peninsula and nearby New Guinea and Maluku. It is a pandan, a palm-like plant rarely grown in home gardens, so care notes are general guidance for pandans.
Benstonea lauterbachii, commonly known as Lauterbach's pandan, is a species of plant in the family Pandanaceae endemic to Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. It is a shrub or small tree to 15 m (49 ft), first described (as Pandanus lauterbachii) in 1900 by Adolf Engler. In 2012, Martin Callmander and Sven Buerki transferred it to the newly created genus Benstonea. In Australia it is found from the top of Cape York to Iron Range, with an isolated occurrence at the Hull River near Tully.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
