St.John, H. (1962), Revision of the genus Pandanus Stickman, Part 12. Queensland Pandanus species from Queensland, Australia. Pacific Science; a quarterly devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the pacific region 16(3): 311, 313, figs 118, 139 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia, North Queensland, south bank of Annan River, 4 miles s.s.w. of Cooktown, savanna with Eucalyptus alba, E. leptophleba, Feb. 3, 1958, H. St. John 26,252 (BISH)."

• Etymology: "The new epithet is the Latin adjective orbicularis, orbicular, given in reference to the nearly orbicular phalanges of this species."

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 385 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus dammannii Warb. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus dammannii Warb. 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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