Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Drosera x pingellyensis
Droseraceae Salisb.
Drosera x pingellyensis Lowrie & Conran , legitimate, named hybrid
Lowrie, A. (2014), Appendix. Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus 3: 1274 APC [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Western Australia. On Great Southern Highway, ca. 10 km south of Pingelly, 32 36' 24"S, 117 05' 52"E, 10 December 1991, Allen Lowrie 561 (holo: PERTH; iso: MEL)."
  • APC Dist.: WA
  • Etymology: "The epithet, pingellyensis, refers to the township Pingelly, near which this taxon occurs. The Australian Aboriginal name for the area before settlement was Pingecullring. Later settlers called the town Pingegully. The present name, Pingelly, was gazxetted when the railway line went through in 1890."
Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (28 March 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2018. Nuytsia 30: 3 [secondary reference]