Pandanaceae

fruit

Fruit indehiscentindehiscent:
not opening on its own, as in a fruit
, simplesimple:
fruit formed from a single flower with one pistil, solitary carpel or several fused carpels
or multiplemultiple:
fruit formed from several flowers clustered in one mass
, drupedrupe:
(indehiscent drupe) a fleshy, indehiscent fruit with one more hard pits enclosing seeds; (dehiscent drupe) a fruit with a dry or fibrous to fleshy or leathery outer husk that early to tardily breaks apart (or opens), exposing one or more nutlike pits enclosing the seeds
or berryberry:
an indehiscent, fleshy fruit with one or a few to many seeds. The flesh may be homogenous throughout. Or, if the outer part is hard, firm, or leathery, referred to as an hesperidium. Septa are present in some, and the seeds may be arillate or with a fleshy testa.
, 12–300 mm long, globoseglobose:
3D shape—more or less spherical
to squaresquare:
2D shape—geometric figure bounded by 4 straight sides of equal length and 4 90º-angles
, tereteterete:
approximately circular in cross section; width and thickness approximately equal
to angledangled:
2D shape—having sides that meet at acute or obtuse angles  
in transectiontransection:
a cross section; representing a plane made by cutting across an organ at a right angle to its length
, one seeded or many seeded. Drupedrupe:
(indehiscent drupe) a fleshy, indehiscent fruit with one more hard pits enclosing seeds; (dehiscent drupe) a fruit with a dry or fibrous to fleshy or leathery outer husk that early to tardily breaks apart (or opens), exposing one or more nutlike pits enclosing the seeds
pericarp white, yellow, orange to red, fibrousfibrous:
texture—long, flexible threads, thicker than hairs, that densely cover and obscure the surface
, fleshyfleshy:
texture—fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut
, woodywoody:
consisting mainly of indurate lignified tissues, characteristic of or resembling wood
, indurateindurate:
texture—hardened or stony; yielding under strong pressure; not deformable without internal structural disruption
, or chartaceouschartaceous:
=papery, papyraceous
, smooth, ribbedribbed:
surface relief—wide, prominent, linear ridges that are generally rounded and longitudinally situated on the surface
, ridgedridged:
surface relief—raised, thick ridges, sharp edged or rounded, usually in a series that may cover the entire surface
, pustularpustular:
surface relief—with small blisters or pustules
, or wartywarty:
surface relief—distinct, rounded projections that are large relative to the fruit size; tuberculate, verrucose
.

In Freycinetia, berriesberries:
an indehiscent, fleshy fruit with one or a few to many seeds. The flesh may be homogenous throughout. Or, if the outer part is hard, firm, or leathery, referred to as an hesperidium. Septa are present in some, and the seeds may be arillate or with a fleshy testa.
are in heads of 10–10,000, fleshyfleshy:
texture—fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut
or ligneousligneous:
woody
, with firmfirm:
texture—yielding under only moderately strong pressure; only slightly deformable without internal structural disruption
apicesapices:
the point farthest from the point of attachment, or the "tip" of an organ
and fleshyfleshy:
texture—fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut
bases, many seeded. Sararanga also has berriesberries:
an indehiscent, fleshy fruit with one or a few to many seeds. The flesh may be homogenous throughout. Or, if the outer part is hard, firm, or leathery, referred to as an hesperidium. Septa are present in some, and the seeds may be arillate or with a fleshy testa.
but with carpels in a distinctive biseriatebiseriate:
arranged in two rows; e.g. seeds arranged in two rows within a locule
sinuous row.

In the remaining genera, fruits are drupesdrupes:
(indehiscent drupe) a fleshy, indehiscent fruit with one more hard pits enclosing seeds; (dehiscent drupe) a fruit with a dry or fibrous to fleshy or leathery outer husk that early to tardily breaks apart (or opens), exposing one or more nutlike pits enclosing the seeds
often produced in a head and free to connate and with seeds bound to the endocarpendocarp:
the inner layer of the pericarp, if divided into layers
and germinating within the fruit. In Benstonea (formally Pandanus), drupesdrupes:
(indehiscent drupe) a fleshy, indehiscent fruit with one more hard pits enclosing seeds; (dehiscent drupe) a fruit with a dry or fibrous to fleshy or leathery outer husk that early to tardily breaks apart (or opens), exposing one or more nutlike pits enclosing the seeds
are free, monocarpellarymonocarpellary:
ovary or fruit having one carpel
, one seeded, and with stigmasstigmas:
the portion of the pistil receptive to pollen
on the abaxialabaxial:
dorsal; on the side that is away from the axis (in nutlets, the side facing outwards); (compare adaxial)
side of the persistent sharp, linearlinear:
(shape) long, narrow, and uniform in width; (of embryo) embryo is straight and much longer than wide
styles. In Pandanus, drupesdrupes:
(indehiscent drupe) a fleshy, indehiscent fruit with one more hard pits enclosing seeds; (dehiscent drupe) a fruit with a dry or fibrous to fleshy or leathery outer husk that early to tardily breaks apart (or opens), exposing one or more nutlike pits enclosing the seeds
are free or connate, fibrousfibrous:
texture—long, flexible threads, thicker than hairs, that densely cover and obscure the surface
, multicarpellate, several seeded, and with the stigmasstigmas:
the portion of the pistil receptive to pollen
on the adaxialadaxial:
ventral; on the side that is towards the axis (in nutlets, the side facing inwards), (compare abaxial)
side of the stylestyle:
in a flower, the narrow and elongated part of the pistil between the stigma and the ovary; sometimes persisting in fruit
, which is variously shaped but rarely sharp and linearlinear:
(shape) long, narrow, and uniform in width; (of embryo) embryo is straight and much longer than wide
. In Martellidendron, drupesdrupes:
(indehiscent drupe) a fleshy, indehiscent fruit with one more hard pits enclosing seeds; (dehiscent drupe) a fruit with a dry or fibrous to fleshy or leathery outer husk that early to tardily breaks apart (or opens), exposing one or more nutlike pits enclosing the seeds
are in oblongoblong:
2D shape—much longer than broad with nearly parallel sides, corners are rounded
, tubuliformtubuliform:
having the form of a tube or cylinder
, or sphericalspherical:
3D shape—globose
heads, with two opposite stigmasstigmas:
the portion of the pistil receptive to pollen
at the apexapex:
the point farthest from the point of attachment, or the "tip" of an organ
forming a cross with staminodesstaminodes:
a modified, sterile stamen
at the base.

Seed variable depending on the genus. In Sararanga and Freycinetia, seeds are small, compressedcompressed:
flattened; in grasses, used to denote compression (not necessarily flattened) either laterally or dorsiventrally
, straight, sometimes curvedcurved:
(of embryo) linear embryo is curved into an arch or horseshoe with the ends far apart
in Freycinetia, with thickthick:
having or being of relatively great depth
seed coats. Seeds in Freycinetia often develop what appears to be a strophiolestrophiole:
appendage or outgrowth of seed coat near the hilum and micropyle
. In the other genera, seeds are larger, fusiformfusiform:
spindle-shaped; broadest at the middle and tapering at both ends
to obovoidobovoid:
3D shape—obovate
, compressedcompressed:
flattened; in grasses, used to denote compression (not necessarily flattened) either laterally or dorsiventrally
, with thinthin:
having or being of relatively little depth
, membranousmembranous:
texture—extremely thin, pliable, and fairly tough
seed coats.

Embryo well developed, small, linearlinear:
(shape) long, narrow, and uniform in width; (of embryo) embryo is straight and much longer than wide
, straight. Endospermendosperm:
nutritive starch- and oil-containing tissue present in many seeds
copious, fleshyfleshy:
texture—fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut
.