Wiborgia

{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}

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| image = Wiborgia monoptera Flipphi 3.jpg

| image_caption = Wiborgia monoptera

| taxon = Wiborgia

| authority = Thunb. (1800), nom. cons.{{cite book | author = Thunberg CP | year = 1800 | chapter = Wiborgia | editor = Thunberg CP | title = Nova Genera Plantarum | volume = 10 | page = 137 | title-link = Nova genera plantarum }}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision_ref = {{cite journal | author = Dahlgren R. | author-link = Rolf Dahlgren | year = 1975 | title = Studies on Wiborgia Thunb. and related species of Lebeckia Thunb. (Fabaceae) | journal = Opera Bot | volume = 38 | pages = 1–83 }}{{cite web | url = http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&genus~Wiborgia&species~ | title = ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Wiborgia | author = | website = International Legume Database & Information Service | publisher = Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics | access-date = 12 March 2014 }}{{cite web | url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?12830 | title = GRIN species records of Wiborgia | author = USDA | author-link = USDA | author2 = ARS | author2-link = Agricultural Research Service | author3 = National Genetic Resources Program | website = Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database] | publisher = National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland | access-date = 12 March 2014 }}

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Jacksonago Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 191 (1891)

Loethainia Heynh. in Nom. Bot. Hort.: 883 (1841)

Peltaria Burm. ex DC. in Prodr. 2: 420 (1825), pro syn.

|synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:332061-2 Wiborgia Thunb.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 23 September 2023.

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Wiborgia is a genus of plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes nine species of shrubs endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. They grow in fynbos or renosterveld (Mediterranean-climate shrubland), mostly in sandy flats and rocky areas. The genus was named for Erik Viborg by Carl Peter Thunberg.

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Category:Crotalarieae

Category:Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces

Category:Fabaceae genera

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