St.John, H. (1967), Revision of the genus Pandanus Stickman, Part 21. The Pandanus monticola group in Queensland, Australia Further accounts of Austrlaian species, and a key to the Section Microstigma. Pacific Science; a quarterly devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the pacific region 21(2): 279-281, figs 235-237 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia, North Queensland, Kuranda, Black Mt. Road, rain forest with Acacia, Calamus and Gahnia 1,000 ft alt, Feb. 4, 1958, H. St. John 26,253 (BISH)."

• Etymology: "The new epithet is coined form the Latin pluvia, rain, and silvaticus, woodsy, and is given with reference to the habitat of the species, the rain forest."

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 387 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus monticola F.Muell. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus monticola F.Muell. legitimate

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Pandanaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 234 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus monticola F.Muell. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Benstonea monticola (F.Muell.) Callm. & Buerki legitimate

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