Freycinetia Aculeata

''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 – (New Guinea)
*''Freycinetia allantoidea'' A.P.Keim – (New Guinea)
*''Freycinetia arborea'' Gaudich. – ''Ieie'' ( Pacific Is., Hawaii, Fr. Polynesia, Cook Is.)
*'' Freycinetia auriculata'' Merr. – (Philippines)
*''Freycinetia banksii'' A.Cunn. – Kiekie (New Zealand)
*''Freycinetia berbakensis'' Pasaribu – (Malesia)
*''Freycinetia boninensis'' Nakai – (Bonin Islands endemic)
*'' Freycinetia cumingiana'' Gaudich. – (Philippines)
*'' Freycinetia daymanensis'' Huynh – (New Guinea)
*''Freycinetia delicata'' Huynh – ( New Caledonia)
*'' Freycinetia dewildeorum'' Pasaribu – (Malesia)
*''Freycinetia excelsa'' F.Muell. – (Australia, New Guinea)
*''Freycinetia formosana'' Hemsl. – (Taiwan, Philippines, Ryukyu Is. sthn Japan)
*''Freycinetia gunungmejensis'' Sinaga – (New Guinea)
*''Freycinetia imbricata'' Blume – (Philippines)
*'' Freycinetia insueta'' Huynh – (New Guinea)
*''Freycinetia involuta'' Huynh – (New Caledonia)
*''Freycinetia javanica'' Blume – (Malesia)
*''Freycinetia kamialiensis'' Huynh – (New Guinea)
*''Freycinetia kartawinatae'' A.P.Keim – (Malesia)
*''Freycinetia kwerbaensis'' A.P.Keim – (New Guinea)
*''Freycinetia leuserensis'' Pasaribu – (Malesia)
*''Freycinetia luzonensis'' C.Presl – (Philippines)
*''Freycinetia marginata'' Blume – (Australia, New Guinea)
*'' Freycinetia mariannensis'' Merr. – ( Mariana Islands)
*''Freycinetia maxima'' Merr. – (Philippines)
*''Freycinetia modica'' Huynh – (New Caledonia)
*'' Freycinetia multiflora'' Merr. – (Philippines)
*''Freycinetia neoglaucescens'' Huynh – (New Guinea)
*''Freycinetia panica'' Huynh – (New Caledonia)
*'' Freycinetia percostata'' Merr. & L.M.Perry – (Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Is.)
*''Freycinetia ponapensis'' Martelli – (Pohnpei, Caroline Islands)
*'' Freycinetia pseudograminifolia'' Huynh – (New Caledonia)
*''Freycinetia rubripedata'' Huynh – (New Guinea)
*''Freycinetia runcingensis'' A.P.Keim – (Malesia)
*'' Freycinetia scabrosa'' Pasaribu – (Malesia)
*''Freycinetia scandens'' Gaudich. – (Australia, New Guinea, Malesia)
*'' Freycinetia scitula'' Huynh – (New Guinea)
*'' Freycinetia separata'' Huynh – (New Caledonia)
*'' Freycinetia spinifera'' A.P.Keim – (New Guinea)
*''Freycinetia starensis'' Huynh – (New Guinea)
*''Freycinetia storckii'' Seem. – ( Fiji)
*''Freycinetia streimannii'' A.P.Keim – (New Guinea)
*'' Freycinetia subracemosa'' A.P.Keim – (Malesia)
*''Freycinetia subulata'' Huynh – (New Caledonia)
*''Freycinetia sumatrana'' Hemsl. – (Malesia)
*''Freycinetia sumbawaensis'' A.P.Keim & M.Rahayu – (Malesia)
*''Freycinetia urvilleana'' Hombr. & Jacq. ( to, kahikahi) – (Timor, Pacific Is.)
: Synonym: ''F. milnei'' Seem.
*''Freycinetia wamenaensis'' A.P.Keim – (New Guinea)
*''Freycinetia williamsii'' Merr. – (Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands sthn Japan)

References

Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Freycinetia''
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''Freycinetia of Sumatra''

Cited works

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Pandanales genera