Freycinetia
| Freycinetia | |
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| Freycinetia arborea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Pandanales |
| Family: | Pandanaceae |
| Genus: | Freycinetia Gaudich. |
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Freycinetia is one of the five extant genera in the flowering plant family Pandanaceae. As of November 2024[update], the genus comprises approximately 300 species, most of them climbers. The type species is Freycinetia arborea.[1][2][3]
The species are distributed through the tropics and subtropics of South Asia and the western Pacific Ocean, from Sri Lanka eastwards through the mainland of Southeast Asia to the Melanesia floristic region, and southwards to northern Australia (Queensland, Northern Territory, northern New South Wales), Norfolk Island, and New Zealand. F. banksii is the only extant New Zealand member of the family Pandanaceae, and is found naturally as far south as the temperate South Island.
They have been found growing in tropical forests, coastal forests, humid mountain forests and associated biomes, from sea level to mountains cloud forests.
The genus was named by Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré for Admiral Louis de Freycinet, a 19th-century French explorer.[4]
Species with articles
[edit]For a complete list of species, see List of Freycinetia species
- Freycinetia arborea Gaudich. – Pacific Islands
- Freycinetia excelsa F.Muell. – Australia, New Guinea[5]
- Freycinetia marginata Blume – Australia, New Guinea[6]
- Freycinetia multiflora Merr. – Philippines
- Freycinetia scandens Gaudich. – Australia, New Guinea, Malesia[7]
- Freycinetia sumatrana Merr. – Indo-China, Malesia
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Freycinetia Gaudich". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2024. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
- ^ Wilson, A.J.G.; Kodela, P.G. (2022). Kodela, P.G. (ed.). "Freycinetia". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
- ^ "Freycinetia". Flora of China (eFloras). Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
- ^ "Freycinetia arborea". Meet the Plants. National Tropical Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2009-03-21.
- ^ F.A. Zich; B.Hyland; T. Whiffen; R.A. Kerrigan. "Freycinetia excelsa". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants (RFK8). Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- ^ F.A. Zich; B.Hyland; T. Whiffen; R.A. Kerrigan. "Freycinetia marginata". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants (RFK8). Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- ^ F.A. Zich; B.Hyland; T. Whiffen; R.A. Kerrigan. "Freycinetia scandens". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants (RFK8). Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 27 May 2021.