St.John, H. (1961), Revision of the Genus Pandanus Stickman, Part 2. Pandanus in Western Australia and Notes on the Section Foullioya. Pacific Science; a quarterly devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the pacific region 15(2): 180-182, fig. 9 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Western Australia, West Kimberley, Fitzroy River, Aug. 1906, W.V. Fitzgerald 2,395, fruiting specimen (NSW)."

• Etymology: "The new specific epithet is a geographic adjective, made from the name of the well-known Kimberley district where the plant occurs."

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

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus aquaticus F.Muell. legitimate

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

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

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus aquaticus F.Muell. legitimate

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Pandanaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 225 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus aquaticus F.Muell. legitimate

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