welwitschia mirabilis

Noun welwitschia mirabilis has 1 sense

• welwitschia mirabilis(n = noun.plant) welwitschia - curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old;
is a kind of gymnosperm
is a member of genus welwitchia, genus welwitschia