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Pandanus odorifer; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2026-04-21

Pandanus odorifer (Forssk.) Kuntze

Screw-pine

Pandanaceae · Aldabra, China South-Central +23

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Pandanus odorifer, photograph (c) Wolfgang Ahlmer, some rights reserved (CC BY)Pandanus odorifer, photograph (c) Wolfgang Ahlmer, some rights reserved (CC BY)Pandanus odorifer, photograph (c) Wolfgang Ahlmer, some rights reserved (CC BY)Pandanus odorifer, photograph (c) Kiwi Shen, some rights reserved (CC BY)Pandanus odorifer, photograph (c) vrxz, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)Pandanus odorifer, photograph (c) Kiwi Shen, some rights reserved (CC BY) 58 photographs ›
Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
12.1°C
Record low 7.4 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
29°C
Jul and Aug at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
2,331mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
21–38DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet summers: the rain comes April to October, read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Pandanus odorifer is an aromatic monocot species of plant in the family Pandanaceae, native to South East Asia, the Andaman Islands, the Philippines, and is also found wild in southern India and Burma. It is commonly known as fragrant screw-pine.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Pandanus odorifer", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Pandanus

Pandanus is a genus of monocots with about 578 accepted species. They are palm-like, dioecious trees and shrubs native to the Old World tropics and subtropics. Common names include pandan, screw palm and screw pine. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Pandanus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,657 mm of 2,211 mm) falls in April to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 26.3 °C against a yearly mean of 23.8 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: October to April.

Rain

2,211 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,657 mm of it April to October. Wettest month August at 289 mm, driest month January at 91 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,642 mm to 3,407 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,331 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,211 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 21 to 38 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 15, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 12.1 °C, the absolute minimum 7.4 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.9 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 16.9 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 13.6 °C to 24.5 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.8 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 12.1 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 62 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -6 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Pandanus odorifer through the yearWarmest months July and August, mean daily high 29 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 16.9 °C; 2,211 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.5°10°15°20°25°30°35°40°34.9° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER7.4° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 21–38RH 62–67%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 352 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C20 / 17–2821 / 18–2923 / 20–3025 / 22–3027 / 25–3028 / 27–3029 / 28–3029 / 27–3028 / 27–2926 / 25–2924 / 22–2821 / 19–28
Night °C17 / 14–2517 / 14–2519 / 16–2622 / 19–2624 / 22–2625 / 24–2726 / 25–2726 / 25–2725 / 24–2624 / 22–2521 / 19–2518 / 15–25
Rain mm91 / 18–25999 / 25–250109 / 36–225154 / 60–222244 / 135–307287 / 156–429214 / 136–448289 / 153–455275 / 153–489194 / 41–384142 / 24–347113 / 17–276
DLI22 / 15–3525 / 18–4031 / 24–4134 / 29–4034 / 31–3834 / 31–3738 / 31–4235 / 32–3832 / 30–3629 / 24–3524 / 18–3221 / 15–32
RH %62 / 55–6763 / 57–6864 / 60–6865 / 62–6966 / 63–6967 / 64–7166 / 64–7066 / 64–7065 / 63–6864 / 60–6763 / 57–6762 / 55–66
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 352 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (1076 records in those cells; 33 more cells hold records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cells are left out), with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1399:5804 (20.025, 110.225). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 7.4 °C, 1st-percentile night 12.1 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.9 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 352 distinct grid cells holding 1076 of the 1178 in-range records (33 further cells with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1399:5804 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 20.00_110.000, lapse-corrected -6 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 21 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeAldabra, China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Bangladesh, India, Laccadive Is., Maldives, Sri Lanka, Andaman Is., Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., South China Sea, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Philippines, Sulawesi · introduced: Congo, Tanzania, Mozambique, Yemen, East Himalaya, Florida, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Puerto Rico, Windward Is. · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker22.869, 121.234 · in the densest population, 586 records (44% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 1344 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 1076 of them in the land cells it reads, of 1178 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 417 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 43 km away. 63 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 166 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 1344 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Wolfgang Ahlmer, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Kiwi Shen, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) vrxz, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Acalypha grandibracteata Acalypha grandibracteata Euphorbiaceae Photo: CC BY, 胡正恆(Jackson Hu)Lasianthus hirsutus Lasianthus hirsutus Rubiaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedVigna marina Vigna marina Notched cowpea Photo: CC BY, smathichongCerbera manghas Cerbera manghas Madagascar ordeal-bean Photo: CC BY-SA, Douglas GoldmanWikstroemia retusa Wikstroemia retusa Thymelaeaceae Photo: CC BY, Kiwi ShenGarcinia subelliptica Garcinia subelliptica Common Garcinia Photo: CC0, author not stated

Other Pandanus 26 in the reference

Pandanus amaryllifolius Pandanus amaryllifolius Fragrant Pandan Photo: CC BY, chiuluanPandanus aquaticus Pandanus aquaticus Water Pandan Photo: CC BY, Stella FishPandanus austrosinensis Pandanus austrosinensis Pandanaceae Photo: CC BY, Kalvin ChanPandanus balfourii Pandanus balfourii Balfour’s Pandanus Photo: CC0, author not statedPandanus basedowii Pandanus basedowii Sandstone Pandanus Photo: CC BY, Thomas MesaglioPandanus conoideus Pandanus conoideus Pandanaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei GanPandanus cookii Pandanus cookii Cook's pandan Photo: CC0, author not statedPandanus dubius Pandanus dubius Knob-fruited Screwpine Photo: CC BY, GabrielPandanus furcatus Pandanus furcatus Pandanus Photo: CC BY, Sagnik Dutta RoyPandanus gemmifer Pandanus gemmifer Pup pandan Photo: CC BY, Richard LittauerPandanus kaida Pandanus kaida False Pineapple Photo: CC0, author not stated Pandanus labyrinthicus Pandanaceae all 27 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Athrodactylis spinosa; Bromelia sylvestris; Hasskarlia leucacantha; Keura odora; Keura odorifera and 78 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Pandanus spiralis Blanco is an older name of this species, not Pandanus spiralis, a species of the reference; Pandanus tectorius Sol. and Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Balf.f., 1774 is an older name of this species, not Pandanus tectorius, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Pandanaceae
Described by
(Forssk.) Kuntze
Native to
Aldabra, China South-Central, Hainan +22
Wild records
1344 in range · 417 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 98 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (18 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 80 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 20.00_110.000, lapse-corrected -6 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 38 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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