| Common Names - | Synonyms - |
| Authority - Engl. & Gilg. | Total Number of genera - 3 |
| Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 875 |
| Plant forms - Tree/Shrub/Liane | |
| World Distribution - Old World tropical to New Zealand. West tropical Africa, Southeast Asia. Southwest tropical Africa, Madagascar, India to Thailand, Malaysia and Australia | |
| Comments - Trees or shrubs or lianes with clasping arial roots. | |
| 1 - Freycinetia. 2 - Pandanus. 3 - Sararanga. |