Winklerella

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|status = CR

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author= Ghogue, J.-P. |date=2010 |title= Winklerella dichotoma |volume=2010 |page= e.T185552A8434624 |doi= 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T185552A8434624.en |access-date=22 May 2023}}

|genus = Winklerella

|parent_authority = Engl.

|species = dichotoma

|authority = Engl.

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Winklerella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Podostemaceae. It only contains one known species, Winklerella dichotoma.{{cite web |title=Winklerella Engl. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:32264-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=13 March 2021 |language=en}}

It is native to Cameroon in Africa.

The genus name of Winklerella is in honour of Hubert Winkler (1875–1941), a German botanist, who specialized in tropical flora research.{{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 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}} The Latin specific epithet of dichotoma is derived from dichotomus which means split in two; from dichotomous.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}

Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. Vol.38 on page 97 in 1905.