Editing Pandanus (section)

{{Short description|Genus of palm-like monocot trees and shrubs}}
{{use dmy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=February 2025}}
{{Distinguish|Pandalus}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = [[Oligocene]]-[[Recent]] {{fossil_range|30|0}}
| image = Pandanus utilis fruit.JPG
| image_caption = Fruit of ''[[Pandanus utilis]]''
| taxon = Pandanus
| authority = [[Sydney Parkinson|Parkinson]]{{R|POWO}}
| synonyms_ref = {{R|POWO}}
| synonyms = 
{{Collapsible list
  |title = 20 synonyms
  |bullets = true
  |''Athrodactylis'' {{small|[[Johann Reinhold Forster|J.R.Forst.]] & [[Georg Forster|G.Forst.]]}}
  |''Barrotia'' {{small|[[Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré|Gaudich.]]}}
  |''Bryantia'' {{small|[[Philip Barker Webb|Webb]] ex Gaudich.}}
  |''Doornia'' {{small|[[Willem Hendrik de Vriese|de Vriese]]}}
  |''Dorystigma'' {{small|Gaudich.}}
  |''Eydouxia'' {{small|Gaudich.}}
  |''Foullioya'' {{small|Gaudich.}}
  |''Hasskarlia'' {{small|[[Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers|Walp.]]}}
  |''Heterostigma'' {{small|Gaudich.}}
  |''Hombronia'' {{small|Gaudich.}}
  |''Jeanneretia'' {{small|Gaudich.}}
  |''Keura'' {{small|[[Peter Forsskål|Forssk.]]}}
  |''Marquartia'' {{small|[[Justus Carl Hasskarl|Hassk.]]}}
  |''Pandanus'' {{small|[[Georg Eberhard Rumphius|Rumph.]] ex [[Carl Linnaeus the Younger|L.f.]]}}
  |''Roussinia'' {{small|Gaudich.}}
  |''Rykia'' {{small|de Vriese}}
  |''Souleyetia'' {{small|Gaudich.}}
  |''Sussea'' {{small|Gaudich.}}
  |''Tuckeya'' {{small|Gaudich.}}
  |''Vinsonia'' {{small|Gaudich.}}
}}
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See [[List of Pandanus species|List of ''Pandanus'' species]]
}}

'''''Pandanus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[monocot]]s with about 578 accepted [[species]].<ref name="POWO"/> They are palm-like, [[dioecious]] trees and shrubs native to the [[Old World]] tropics and subtropics. Common names include '''pandan''', '''screw palm''' and '''screw pine'''. The genus is classified in the order [[Pandanales]], family [[Pandanaceae]],<ref name="Hyndman">{{cite journal |author=David C. Hyndman |year=1984 |title=Ethnobotany of Wopkaimin ''Pandanus'' significant Papua New Guinea plant resource |journal=[[Economic Botany]] |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=287–303 |doi=10.1007/BF02859007|s2cid=32883085 }}</ref><ref name="hawaii1">{{cite journal |author=Harold St. John |author-link=Harold St. John |year=1968 |title=Revision of the genus ''Pandanus'' Stickman, part 29. New Papuan species in the section ''Microstigma'' collected by C. E. Carr |journal=[[Pacific Science]] |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=514–519 |hdl=10125/12577 |url=http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/12577/v22n4-514-519.pdf }}</ref> and is the largest in the family.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |last1=Stone |first1=B. C. |title=Pandanaceae |date=1998 |work=Flowering Plants · Monocotyledons: Lilianae (except Orchidaceae) |pages=397–404 |editor-last=Kubitzki |editor-first=Klaus |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-03533-7_47 |access-date=2025-01-31 |place=Berlin, Heidelberg |publisher=Springer |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-662-03533-7_47 |isbn=978-3-662-03533-7 |last2=Huynh |first2=K.-L. |last3=Poppendieck |first3=H.-H.|url-access=subscription }}</ref>