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Pandanus boninensis

Pandanus boninensis
Photo: The original uploader was Anonymous Powered at Japanese Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Pandanaceae (Pandan family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Ogasawara-shotō to Kazan Rettō
Climate
wet tropical

About

Pandanus boninensis is an Asian species of plant that is endemic to and common in the Distylium-Schima dry forests and Raphiolepis-Livistona dry forests of the Bonin Islands, Japan. It has aerial prop roots and grows on rocks. The beetle, Phylloplatypus pandani is a leaf miner that consumes the leaves of P. boninensis, it was first described by scientists in 1998. The fungus, Kodonospora tetracolumnaris was isolated from dead leaves of P. boninensis and described in 1993.

Other Pandanus plants

Pandanus aldabraensis · Fragrant Pandan · Water Pandan · Ngaputoru Pandanus · Pandanus aridus · Vakwa montany · Pandanus barkleyi · Pandanus brookei · Pandanus brosimos · Pandanus calcicola · Pandanus candelabrum · Pandanus carmichaelii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pandanus boninensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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