Wilbrandia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae.
[1] It is also in Tribe Coniandreae.
It is native to Brazil, Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina.
[1] As accepted by Plants of the World Online:[1] The genus name of Wilbrandia is in honour of Johann Bernhard Wilbrand (1779–1846), a German anatomist and naturalist.
He was a proponent of Naturphilosophie.