welwitschiaceae

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1. in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	gymnosperm family,
definition	:	a family of gymnosperms (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	genus welwitchia, genus welwitschia,
definition	:	type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	gnetales, order gnetales,
definition	:	chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms (noun.plant)