Pandanaceae

fruit

Fruit a simple or multiple drupe 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 angledangular:
2D shape—having sides that meet at acute or obtuse angles  
in transection, with one or many seeds. Drupedrupe:
(indehiscent drupe) a fleshy, indehiscent fruit with one more hard pits enclosing seeds, derived from single, superior, simple or compound ovary; (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,  or orange to red, fibrousfibrous:
texture—long, flexible threads, thicker than hairs, that densely cover and obscure the surface
, fleshy, woodywoody:
texture—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, berriesberry:
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, fleshy or ligneousligneous:
woody
, with firm apicesapex:
the point farthest from the point of attachment, or the "tip" of an organ
and fleshy bases, and many seeded. Sararanga also has berriesberry:
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 drupesdrupe:
(indehiscent drupe) a fleshy, indehiscent fruit with one more hard pits enclosing seeds, derived from single, superior, simple or compound ovary; (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. Seeds are bound to the endocarpendocarp:
the inner layer of the pericarp, if divided into layers
and germinating within the fruit. In Benstonea (formally Pandanus), drupesdrupe:
(indehiscent drupe) a fleshy, indehiscent fruit with one more hard pits enclosing seeds, derived from single, superior, simple or compound ovary; (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 stigmasstigma:
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, drupesdrupe:
(indehiscent drupe) a fleshy, indehiscent fruit with one more hard pits enclosing seeds, derived from single, superior, simple or compound ovary; (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 stigmasstigma:
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, drupesdrupe:
(indehiscent drupe) a fleshy, indehiscent fruit with one more hard pits enclosing seeds, derived from single, superior, simple or compound ovary; (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 stigmasstigma:
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.

Seeds 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 thick 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 thin, 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.

Endosperm copious, fleshy.