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): 563-565, figs 23-24 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia, Queensland, Cape York Peninsula, abundant locally in rain forest behind the coastal sand dunes, 20 m. alt., May 9, 1948, L.J. Brass 18,715 (BRI)."

• Etymology: "The new epithet is the Latin adjective, sphaericus, spherical, in reference to the shape of the phalange and of the syncarp."
• Vernacular: maia

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 384 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus conicus H.St.John legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus conicus H.St.John legitimate

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Pandanaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 217 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus conicus H.St.John legitimate

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