title: Polemannia
text: # Polemannia
  
  Polemannia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.
  
  It is native to South Africa (the Cape Provinces, the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal) and Lesotho.
  
  The genus name of Polemannia is in honour of Peter Heinrich Polemann (1779 – 1839), a German chemist and apothecary who supported plant collectors in Schleswig-Holstein, who went to Cape Town, South Africa. It was first described and published in Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral. on page 347 in 1837.
  
  ## Known species
  
  According to Kew:
  
  * Polemannia grossulariifolia Eckl. & Zeyh.
  * Polemannia montana Schltr. & H.Wolff
  * Polemannia simplicior Hilliard & B.L.Burtt
  