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): 573-575, figs 31-32 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia, Queensland, Cape York Peninsula, Lockerbie, 10 mi. WSW of Somerset, common and in places forming small groves on sandy soil in savanna-forest, 30 m. alt., 1948, L.J. Brass 18,552 (BRI)."

• Etymology: "The new epithet is the Latin participle, truncatus, cut off, or flat ended, in allusion to the shape of the carpel apices."

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

taxonomic synonym of: Pandanus cookii Martelli legitimate

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Pandanaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 220 [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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