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Benstonea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Pandanaceae, native to the Paleotropics.

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  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderPandanales
  5. FamilyPandanaceae

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Benstonea
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Benstonea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Pandanaceae, native to the Paleotropics.

==Description== Plants in this genus are stemless or short-stemmed shrubs, epiphytes, or (rarely) trees. Leaves are long and strap like, and pleated along the length. Spines may be present along the margins and the pleats. The inflorescences are either terminal or carried on a short side branch. The fruit is a syncarp consisting of numerous simple drupes that never coalesce into phalanges as do those of Pandanus species.

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