Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Drosera x badgingarra
Droseraceae Salisb.
Drosera x badgingarra Lowrie & Conran , legitimate, named hybrid
Lowrie, A. (2014), Appendix. Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus 3: 1273 APC [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Western Australia. On Brand Highway, just north of Hill River, Western Austrlaia, 30 17'S, 115 19'E, 10 December 1991, Allen Lowrie 562 (holo: PERTH; iso: MEL)."
  • APC Dist.: WA
  • Etymology: "The epithet, badgingarra, is derived from the Australian Aboriginal name for the pool of water on the river located opposite the old town site of Badgingarra, about 5 km east of Moora. This feature was recorded by surveyor Alexander Forrest in 1877. The Aboriginal word badgingarra is said to mean "water by the manna gums". The present town site of Badgingarra, gazetted in 1955, is situated on the Brand Highway near the area in which this natural hybrid is found."
Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (28 March 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2018. Nuytsia 30: 2 [secondary reference]