Welwitschiella is a genus of African plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.Hoffmann, Karl August Otto. 1894. Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 4(5): 390-391 in GermanTropicos, Welwitschiella nereifolia O. Hoffm.
Species There is only one known species, Welwitschiella neriifolia, native to Angola, Zaïre, and Zambia.Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Luc Brouillet, Arne A. Anderberg, Guy L. Nesom, Timothy K. Lowrey and Lowell E. Urbatsch. 2009. Welwitschiella is a member of the African subtribe Grangeinae (Asteraceae Astereae): a new phylogenetic position based on ndhf and ITS sequence data. Kew Bulletin 64(4): 645-660
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