''Philydrella pygmaea'' is a plant species in the

Philydraceae Philydraceae is a family of flowering plants composed of three genera and a total of six known species. Such a family has not been recognized by many taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), does recogni ...

family, first described by Robert Brown in 1810 as ''Philydrum pygmaeum'', and transferred to the genus, ''

Philydrella ''Philydrella'' is a small genus of flowering plants described as a genus with this name in 1878. The entire genus is endemic to the southwestern portion of Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Austr ...

'' in 1878 by Teodoro Caruel.Caruel, T. (1878), Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano 10: 91 It is endemic to the south-west of

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

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Flora of Western Australia Philydraceae Taxa named by Teodoro Caruel {{commelinales-stub