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17: Fibre plants

Pandanus bicornis Ridley

PANDANACEAE

Indonesia: pandan sepejam (Palembang).

Peninsular Malaysia and Indonesia (Sumatra).

Older leaves are woven into mats and coarse hats which are worn in the field. The durability is less than that of material from Pandanus furcatus Roxb.

A dioecious shrub, 30—60 cm tall. Leaves linear, 60 cm x 5 cm, margins and underside of midrib with prickles, apex abruptly caudate with 7 cm long tail. Male inflorescence unknown. Female inflorescence a solitary head, cylindrical to subglobose, about 10 cm in diameter, in axil of broad ovate bract 15 cm long with 5 cm long tail at apex; drupes 18 mm x 12 mm, with free, obscurely angled, broad top; stigma with 2 short horns 3 mm long. Pandanus bicornis grows in dense forest at 800—1000 m altitude. According to B.C. Stone, Pandanus bicornis is classified in subgenus Rykia, section Rykia.

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[147]Ridley, H.N., 1922—1925. The flora of the Malay Peninsula. 5 volumes. Government of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States. L. Reeve & Co., London, United Kingdom.
[176]Stone, B.C., 1974. Towards an improved infrageneric classification in Pandanus (Pandanaceae). Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 94(4): 459—540.

M. Brink, P.C.M. Jansen & C.H. Bosch

Brink, M., Jansen, P.C.M. & Bosch, C.H., 2003. Pandanus bicornis Ridley. In: Brink, M and Escobin, R.P. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 17: Fibre plants. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea