Wilbrandia
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Wilbrandia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae.{{cite web |title=Wilbrandia Silva Manso {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:13443-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=13 March 2021 |language=en}} It is also in Tribe Coniandreae.
It is native to Brazil, Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina.
Known species
As accepted by Plants of the World Online:
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|Wilbrandia ebracteata |Cogn.
|Wilbrandia glaziovii |Cogn.
|Wilbrandia hibiscoides |Silva Manso
|Wilbrandia longisepala |Cogn.
|Wilbrandia verticillata |(Vell.) Cogn. }}
The genus name of Wilbrandia is in honour of Johann Bernhard Wilbrand (1779–1846), a German anatomist and naturalist. He was a proponent of Naturphilosophie.{{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. Subst. Braz. page 30 in 1836.