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| | Pandanaceae [Draft] |
 | | Male inflorescences axillary and terminal, compound, bracteate, comprising several-branched racemes or panicles with crowded flowers on spicate ultimate branches; bracts (spathes) often enlarged at apex, white or colored. |
 | | Male flowers sessile (pedicellate in Sararanga), with pistillode (vestigial ovary) sometimes present; stamens numerous, fasciculate, arising on rachises or spadix-branches; filaments smooth (Pandanus) or papillose (Freycinetia), seemingly branched; anthers basifixed, bilocular with 4 pollen sacs, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, connective often apiculate; pollen grains often spinulose. |
 | | Female flowers with or without staminodes; pistils free or aggregated (congested) and appressed (fused) to adjacent pistils forming 1-to many-carpelled phalanges or clusters; ovary superior, 1-to several-loculed; ovules solitary to numerous, anatropous, placentation basal or parietal (marginal); style absent or very short; stigmas 1 or more, subsessile, glandular-papillose. |
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