St.John, H. (1961), Revision of the genus Pandanus Stickman, Part 6. New Pandanus species from Queensland, Australia. Pacific Science; a quarterly devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the pacific region 15(4): 569-570, figs 27-28 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia, Queensland, Cape York Peninsula, Iron Range, occasionally in gullies in rain forest, 20 m. alt., June 24, 1948, L.J. Brass 19,309 (BRI)."

• Etymology: "The epithet is the Latin participle, oblatus, given the modern scientific meaning, depressed. This refers to the oblate-pyramidal carpel apices."

Stone, B.C. (7 February 1978), Notes on the genus Pandanus (Pandanaceae) in Western Australia. Nuytsia 2(4): 248-249 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pandanus somersetensis H.St.John legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld

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

• Comment: Appears in square brackets and italics as an "erroneous record".

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 309 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 388 [secondary reference]

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Pandanaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 229, Fig. 48 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pandanus somersetensis H.St.John legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld

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