Screw Pine family : PANDANACEAE (ARECIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Pandanus cookii ? Cook's Screwpine Magnetic Island, January 2008 Photos: courtesy of Donald Simpson

Pandanus solmslaubachii ? Marsh Screwpine Magnetic Island, January 2008 Photos: courtesy of Donald Simpson

Pandanus tectorius Beach Screwpine Magnetic Island, January 2008 Photos: courtesy of Donald Simpson

Species in PANDANACEAE are the foodplants for caterpillars of some Australian Butterfly and Moth species including:

Taenaris artemis

Nacoleia octasema

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013)