Welwitschia
Welwitschia , noun
[New Latin So named after the discoverer, Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch.]
(Botany) An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the order Gnetaceae. It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments.