Benstonea Stenocarpa
''Benstonea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Pandanaceae, native to the Paleotropics. Description Plants in this genus are stemless or short-stemmed shrubs, epiphytes, or (rarely) trees. Leaves are long and strap like, and pleated along the length. Spines may be present along the margins and the pleats. The inflorescences are either terminal or carried on a short side branch. The fruit is a syncarp consisting of numerous simple drupes that never coalesce into phalanges as do those of ''Pandanus'' species. Plants in the genus are characterised by: * Leaves having spines on the ventral pleats towards the tip of the leaf, * Monocarpellate drupes with the stigmatic grooves on the adaxial side of the stigma * Male flowers having one stamen, or free stamens in triads. Taxonomy Plants in this genus were formerly placed in ''Pandanus'' subgenus ''Acrostigma'', which contained four sections, namely sect. ''Acrostigma'', sect. ''Epiphytica'', sect. ''Fusiforma'' and sect. ...
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