St.John, H. (1962), Revision of the genus Pandanus Stickman, Part 13. Pandanus in the Northern Territory, Australia. Pacific Science; a quarterly devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the pacific region 16(4): 417-420, figs 144-145 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia, Northern Territory, near Darwin, Jan. 1927, C.E.F. Allen (BRI). Isotype in A, BISH, BO."

• Etymology: "The new specific epithet is formed from the name of the type locality, plus -ensis, the Latin adjectival place suffix."

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): 530, Figs 243a, b [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 218 [secondary reference]

Stone, B.C. (7 February 1978), Notes on the genus Pandanus (Pandanaceae) in Western Australia. Nuytsia 2(4): 249-252 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 28 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 58 [secondary reference]

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Pandanaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1252, Fig. 354B [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 214 [secondary reference]

common name: Darwin Screwpine [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus spiralis R.Br. legitimate

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Pandanaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 224 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus spiralis R.Br. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus spiralis R.Br. legitimate

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