Polemannia

Polemannia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.

It is native to South Africa (the Cape Provinces, the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal) and Lesotho.

The genus name of Polemannia is in honour of Peter Heinrich Polemann (1779 – 1839), a German chemist and apothecary who supported plant collectors in Schleswig-Holstein, who went to Cape Town, South Africa. It was first described and published in Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral. on page 347 in 1837.

Known species

According to Kew:

• Polemannia grossulariifolia
• Polemannia montana
• Polemannia simplicior

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