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): 106-108, fig. 290 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia, Queensland, North Kennedy District, Ravenswood, scattered singly or in groups, Eucalyptus forest, pale grey podsolized soil, 285m alt, 15 Nov. 1942, S.T. Blake 14,691 (BRI)."

• Etymology: "The new epithet is formed from the Latin, humerus, shoulder, fero, to bear, and is given with allusion to the prominent shoulders of the endocarp."

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 cookii Martelli legitimate

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Pandanaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 221 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus cookii Martelli legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus cookii Martelli legitimate

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