''Pandanus ceylanicus'' is a monocot species of
plant
Plants are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all curr ...
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, w ...
. It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...
to
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
. It is a prostrate shrub.
Sources
* http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-285792
References
* http://mpnet.ior-rcstt.com/node/3358
* http://e-monocot.org/taxon/urn:kew.org:wcs:taxon:285792
* http://plants.jstor.org/specimen/br0000006941772?history=true&
Endemic flora of Sri Lanka
ceylanicus
Plants described in 1878
Taxa named by Hermann zu Solms-Laubach
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