St.John, H. (1969), Revision of the genus Pandanus Stickman, Part 33. Further accounts of Australian species, and a key to the Section Microstigma. Pacific Science; a quarterly devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the pacific region 23(1): 89-92, fig. 281 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia, Queensland, Great Barrier Reef, Heron I., June 1960, R.F. Thorne 17,215 (BRI)."

• Etymology: "The new epithet is a geographic adjective, made from the name of the type locality, plus the Latin adjectival place suffix, -ensis."

Stone, B.C. (1982), Pandanus tectorius Parkins. in Australia: a conservative view. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 85: 138 [basionym]

basionym of: Pandanus tectorius var. heronensis (H.St.John) B.C.Stone legitimate

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

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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