Freycinetia Scandens
''Freycinetia scandens'' is a species of climbing plant in the family Pandanaceae Pandanaceae is a family of flowering plants native to the tropics and subtropics of the Old World, from West Africa through the Pacific. It contains 982 known species in five genera, of which the type genus, ''Pandanus'', is the most important, wi .... Naturally found growing in Papua New Guinea, Malesia and Queensland. References scandens Flora of Papua New Guinea Flora of Malesia Flora of Queensland Flora of the Northern Territory {{Pandanales-stub ...
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Freycinetia
''Freycinetia'' is one of the five extant genera in the flowering plant family Pandanaceae. The genus comprises approximately 180–200 species, most of them climbers. 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. Selected species *'' Freycinetia aculeata'' Sinaga ...
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