''Sararanga'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family

Pandanaceae Pandanaceae is a family of flowering plants native to the tropics and subtropics of the Old World, from West Africa to the Pacific. It contains 982 known species in five genera, of which the type genus, ''Pandanus'', is the most important, with s ...

, with two species that occur in the Philippines, the northern part of New Guinea, the

Bismarck Archipelago The Bismarck Archipelago (, ) is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. Its area is about . History The first inhabitants of the archipela ...

and the Solomon Islands. They are palm-like,

dioecious Dioecy ( ; ; adj. dioecious, ) is a characteristic of certain species that have distinct unisexual individuals, each producing either male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Dioecious reproduction is ...

trees. The genus name comes from the species of these plants named ''sararang'' in the Solomon Islands.

Species

*'' Sararanga philippinensis''

Merr. Elmer Drew Merrill (October 15, 1876 – February 25, 1956) was an American botanist and taxonomist. He spent more than twenty years in the Philippines where he became a recognized authority on the flora of the Asia-Pacific region. Through ...

, Publ. Bur. Sci. Gov. Lab. 29: 5 (1905). *'' Sararanga sinuosa'' Hemsl., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 30: 216 (1894).

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q7423175 Pandanales genera Pandanaceae Taxa named by William Hemsley (botanist)