释义 |
‖ 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.
1862Trans. Linnean Soc. (1864) I. 1 On Welwitschia, a new Genus of Gnetaceæ. By Joseph Dalton Hooker. 1866Treas. Bot. |