welwitschia

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It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments
An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the order Gnetaceæ
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

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genus welwitschia
type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae
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