Pandanus spicatus a species of plant in the family Pandanaceae. It is native to Madagascar.[1]
Pandanus spicatus is a small tree first collected in 1961 in dense moist forests of northern Madagascar. It grows to 8 m tall, with a 15 cm diameter trunk and no prop roots.[2] Several suberect branches grow from the top of the tree. These are 15 cm in diameter with broad conic spines and covered with persistent leaf bases.[2] Leaves are thick and leathery, up to 3 m long and 15–16.5 cm wide. Fruiting structures are terminal, stand erect and have up to 9 complex fruits (syncarps), concealed in erect or ascending leaves. Fruits are egg-shaped, 9 cm long and 7 cm in diameter.[2] It produces flowers and fruits in August, September, and November.
It is known from only one locality, Amber Mountain National Park and the associated Amber Forest Reserve, in northern Madagascar.[3] There are two known subpopulations.
It lives in montane humid and subhumid evergreen forests between 990 and 1,230 meters elevation.