Wittsteinia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Wittsteinia vaccinacea.JPG

|image_caption = Wittsteinia vacciniacea

|taxon = Wittsteinia

|authority = F.Muell.

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = See text

|synonyms =

• Periomphale Baill.
• Memecylanthus Gilg & Schltr.
• Pachydiscus Gilg & Schltr.

}}

Wittsteinia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Alseuosmiaceae. The genus was first formally described by botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae in 1861.{{cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=WITTSTEINIA|title=Wittsteinia |access-date=2009-04-17 |work= Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database|publisher = Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra}} The name honours Dr Georg Christian Wittstein, the author of an etymological dictionary used as a reference by Mueller.{{cite book|author1=Corrick, M.G. |author2=Fuhrer, B.A. |name-list-style=amp | title=Wildflowers of Victoria and adjoining areas| publisher=Bloomings Books|location= Australia | year=2001 | isbn=1876473142}}

The genus comprises three species:{{cite book|author=Kadereit, Joachim W.|author2=Jeffrey C.|title = Eudicots; Asterales |work=The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Flowering Plants|publisher= Springer |date=2007|isbn=978-3-540-31050-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VhUZnM8S47IC&q=Wittsteinia+papuana&pg=PT21|access-date=2009-12-05}}

• Wittsteinia balansae (Baill.) Steenis from New Caledonia
• Wittsteinia papuana (Steen.) Steen. – from Papua New Guinea
• Wittsteinia vacciniacea F.Muell. – Baw Baw berry, from Victoria, Australia