Polemannia

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Polemannia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.{{cite web |title=Polemannia Eckl. & Zeyh. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331869-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 November 2021 |language=en}}

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.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}} It was first described and published in Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral. on page 347 in 1837.