‖ Welwitschia
(wɛlˈwɪtʃɪə)
[mod.L., named by J. D. Hooker (1862) after Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch (1806–72), Austrian botanist: see -ia.]
A genus of gymnospermous plants (N.O. Gnetaceæ) consisting of one species W. mirabilis, native to the sandy regions of western Africa.
| 1862 Trans. Linnean Soc. (1864) I. 1 On Welwitschia, a new Genus of Gnetaceæ. By Joseph Dalton Hooker. 1866 Treas. Bot. |