St.John, H. (1962), Revision of the genus Pandanus Stickman, Part 12. Queensland Pandanus species from Queensland, Australia. Pacific Science; a quarterly devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the pacific region 16(3): 324-327, 329, figs 124, 125, 123 b-d, 126 a-b [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia, North Queensland, Black Mountain Road, junction with Morgan Smith Lookout Road, open forest by creek, with Casuarina litoralis [sic; littoralis], Eucalyptus tereticornis, 1,300 ft alt., Feb. 4, 1958, H. St. John 26,256 (BISH)."

• Etymology: "The new epitet is from the Latin radix, root, fero, to produce, because of the conspicuous production of rootlets which blanket the bark of the trunk."

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 389 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus solms-laubachii F.Muell. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Pandanus radiciferus H.St.John orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus solms-laubachii F.Muell. legitimate

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Pandanaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 222 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus solms-laubachii F.Muell. legitimate

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