St.John, H. (1967), Revision of the Genus Pandanus Stickman, Part 23. Three Australian Species of Pandanus. Pacific Science; a quarterly devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the pacific region 21(4): 527, fig. 242 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia, Queensland, Green Island, beach forest with Erythrina, Cordia subcordata, Morinda citrifolia, Feb. 9, 1958, H. St. John 26,266 (BISH)."

• Etymology: "The new epithet is the Latin participle adscendens, ascending, and is given with reference to the direction of the lower spines of the leaves."

Pedley, L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Pandanaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 275 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus tectorius Parkinson legitimate

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 390 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus tectorius Parkinson legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus tectorius Parkinson legitimate

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Pandanaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 227 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus tectorius Parkinson legitimate

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