Benstonea toei (H. St. John) Callm. & Buerki

Callmander, Martin W., Lowry Ii, Porter P., Forest, Félix, Devey, Dion S., Beentje, Henk & Buerki, Sven, 2012, Benstonea Callm. & Buerki (Pandanaceae): characterization, circumscription, and distribution of a new genus of screw-pines, with a synopsis of accepted species, Candollea 67 (2), pp. 323-345 : 340

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15553/c2012v672a12
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5841808
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F20C49-1D0C-2B55-5E06-FB0A73FB57DB
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Benstonea toei (H. St. John) Callm. & Buerki
status	comb. nova.

Treatment

46. Benstonea toei (H. St. John) Callm. & Buerki View in CoL , comb. nova.

≡ Pandanus toei H. St. John View in CoL in Pacific Sci. 17: 468. 1963.

Typus: THAILAND: Krabi, 83 km from Huay Yawt, 28.I. 1958, Tem Smitinand 4143 (holo-: BKF [ SN080179 ] image seen).

Distribution and ecology. – Benstonea toei is endemic to lowland evergreen forests in Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.

Observations. – This species is morphologically similar to B. humilis but lacks the tesselate venation and armed pleats on the leaves that characterized the latter. Furthermore, B.toei has a syncarp with fewer and smaller drupes (160 drupes of 15-18 mm longvs 240-430 drupes of 20-25 mmin B.humilis ). Benstonea toei was strangely omitted from STONE’ s (1978) revision of Pandanus subg. Acrostigma .