Welwitschia

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• Science: Biology: Ecology: Ecosystems: Deserts: Desert Plants  (6)

Conservation of Welwitschia mirabilis - - Brief description of the plant and challenges of cultivation, with an old botanical plate illustrating the plant's morphology.

Welwitschia - - Photograph of this exotic gnetophyte known only from the Namib Desert of southwest Africa.

Welwitschia mirabilis - - Description, images, and tour route.

Welwitschia mirabilis - - Description of this dioecious perennial plant of southwest Africa, often described as "unlike any known plant on earth..

Welwitschia mirabilis - - Description and Information provided by the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Conservator.