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Pandanus radicans (PROSEA)
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Pandanus radicans Blanco
- Family: Pandanaceae
Synonyms
Pandanus olango Blanco ex Espejo & Garcia.
Vernacular names
- Philippines: oyañgo (Bikol), olañgo (Bisaya), uyañgo (Manobo).
Distribution
Widely found in the Philippines.
Uses
The leaves are used in the Philippines to make coarse mats, bags and hats. Fibres have been extracted from the long prop roots and woven into fine cloth, but these fibres are not used anymore. In Mindanao the wood has been used for the manufacture of splints for basket-making.
Observations
A dioecious tree, stem up to 8 m tall and 20 cm in diameter. Leaves 6 m × 12 cm, margin with ascending 3-4 mm long prickles 3-8 mm apart; each half with 74 parallel secondary veins and no visible tertiary veins. Female inflorescence racemose-spicate with several heads; carpellate phalanges broadly cylindrical-ellipsoid, 25 mm × 13 mm, the upper third free, lower part connate; stigmas cordate. Fruit a syncarpous polydrupe, dark, brick-red. P. radicans occurs in forests at low altitudes. According to B.C. Stone, P. radicans is classified in subgenus Pandanus sensu Stone, section Elmeria .
Selected sources
19, 170, 176.
Authors
M. Brink, P.C.M. Jansen & C.H. Bosch
