Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Darwinia wittwerorum
Myrtaceae Juss.
Darwinia wittwerorum N.G.Marchant & Keighery , legitimate, scientific
Marchant, N.G. & Keighery, G.J. (24 December 1980), A new species and a new combination in Darwinia (Myrtaceae) from Western Australia. Nuytsia 3(2): 179-181, Fig. 1 BHL APC [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Erect plant to 75 cm tall, on red clayey sand with shrubs of Eucalyptus cornuta, near Talyuberlup, Stirling Range National Park, N.G. Marchant 77/305, 17 October 1977 (holo: PERTH, iso: MEL)."
  • APC Dist.: WA
  • Etymology: "Named in honour of Magda Wittwer (28 August 1922–16 October 1977) and Ernst Wittwer, Superintendent of Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth."
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 123 [secondary reference]
Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 17, 49, Fig. 84 [secondary reference]
common name: Wittwer's Mountain Bell [n/a]
Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3: 7 [secondary reference]
Keighery, G.J. (July 2016), Dwellers in the mist: mountain bells of the Stirling Ranges. Australian Garden History 28(1): 19 [secondary reference]
common name: Wittwers bell [n/a]