Pandanaceae is a family of flowering plants native to the tropics and subtropics of the Old World, from West Africa to the Pacific.

[4] Pandanaceae includes trees, shrubs, lianas, vines, epiphytes, and perennial herbs.

The leaves are very long and narrow, sheathing, simple, undivided, with parallel veins; the leaf margins and abaxial midribs are often prickly.

The inflorescences are terminally borne racemes, spikes or umbels, with subtended spathes, which may be brightly colored.

[3] Benstonea (as subgenus "Acrostigma")[8] and Martellidendron[9] were formerly considered subgenera of Pandanus, but were recognized as distinct genera based on DNA sequencing.