''Welwitschiella'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

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n plants in the aster tribe within the

daisy family The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

.Hoffmann, Karl August Otto. 1894. Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 4(5): 390-391
in German ;Species There is only one known species, ''Welwitschiella neriifolia'', native to

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.Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
/ref>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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References

Astereae Monotypic Asteraceae genera Flora of Africa Athroismeae {{Astereae-stub