St.John, H. (1960), Revision of the Genus Pandanus Stickman Part 1. Key to the Sections. Pacific Science; a quarterly devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the pacific region 14(3): 236, 238-239, fig. 7 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia, Queensland, Cape York Peninsula, Brown's Creek, Pascoe River, frequent in brushy forest on islands in flood bed of creek, 60 m. alt., July 13, 1948, L.J. Brass 19,540 (BRISBANE)."

• Etymology: "The new epithet is from the Latin cochlea, sea shell or snail shell, an allusion to the shell-like carpel apex that overhangs the stigma."

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 308 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 384 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus conicus H.St.John legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus conicus H.St.John legitimate

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Pandanaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 217 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus conicus H.St.John legitimate

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