{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |taxon = Hammeria |authority = Burgoyne }} '''''Hammeria''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=Hammeria Burgoyne {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1003058-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=14 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
It is native to the Cape Provinces of the South African Republic.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Hammeria'' is in honour of Steven A. Hammer (b. 1951), American botanist, horticulturist and plant collector and specialist in Conophytum.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> It was first described and published in Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) Vol.70 on page 204 in 1998.<ref name="POWO" />
Known species, according to Kew:<ref name="POWO" /> *''Hammeria cedarbergensis'' {{small|Klak}} *''Hammeria gracilis'' {{small|Burgoyne}} *''Hammeria meleagris'' {{small|(L.Bolus) Klak}}
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Category:Aizoaceae Category:Aizoaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1998 Category:Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces