The species is named after the American botanist Townshend Stith Brandegee (1843–1925); the scientific name is commonly seen misspelled "brandegeana".
Pinguicula gypsicola was first described in 1911 by Townshend Stith Brandegee (1843-1925), a botanist from California.
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