''Willkommia'' is a genus of plants in the

grass family Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and ...

. The genus has a

disjunct distribution In biology, a taxon with a disjunct distribution is one that has two or more groups that are related but considerably separated from each other geographically. The causes are varied and might demonstrate either the expansion or contraction of a s ...

, with species native to Southern Africa, South America, and the United States.

Species

; Accepted species * '' Willkommia annua'' Hack. - Angola, Namibia * '' Willkommia newtonii'' Hack. - Angola, Namibia * '' Willkommia sarmentosa'' Hack. - Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Cape Province,

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...

* '' Willkommia texana'' Hitchc. - United States ( Texas,

Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...

), Argentina, UruguayParodi, Lorenzo Raimundo. 1925. Physis. Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 8: 78

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2483878 Chloridoideae Poaceae genera Grasses of Africa Grasses of North America Grasses of South America Taxa named by Eduard Hackel