Pandanus odorifer(Pandanaceae) is an economically important species distributed on coasts from India and Sri Lanka to South China through tropical Asian countries.Pandanus odoratissimushas been widely used as the accepted name for the species, butP. odoratissimusis in reality a superfluous and illegitimate name. No original material ofP. odoriferhas been traced, and a neotype is designated here for that name.