Indian Pandanaceae: Present Status and Need of Revision
The Pandanaceae are represented in India by a single genus, Pandanus Parkinson, distributed in South and Northeast India (Nadaf et al. 2011; Zanan and Nadaf 2012a, b). Taxonomic treatment of Pandanaceae of India began with Rheede (1679), who described in
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Altafhusain Nadaf • Rahul Zanan
Indian Pandanaceae - an overview
Altafhusain Nadaf Department of Botany University of Pune Pune, India
Rahul Zanan Department of Botany University of Pune Pune, India
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Foreword
India can justly lay claim to be the cradle of Pandanaceae taxonomy. The four species of Pandanus carefully described and illustrated in van Rheede’s Hortus Malabaricus in 1679 are the first to be mentioned in the botanical literature. A century later, in 1786, William Roxburg, the Director of the Calcutta Botanical Garden brought van Rheede’s Indian screwpine names into line with Carl Linnaeus’ new binomial classification system, that was gradually being adopted by botanists all over the world. During the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, several botanists notably Otto Warburg, Ugolino Martelli, Harold St. John and Benjamin Stone worked on the taxonomy of the Indian Screwpines- introducing new synonymies and describing new species,
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