{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Jacobsenia |authority = L.Bolus & Schwantes }}
'''''Jacobsenia''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Jacobsenia'' L.Bolus & Schwantes {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:16223-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
It is native to the Cape Provinces in the South African Republic.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Jacobsenia'' is in honour of Hermann Jacobsen (1898–1978), a German gardener and botanist. He was also curator and supervisor at a botanical garden in Kiel and specialist in succulents.<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 Kakteen And. Sukk. Vol.5 on page 69 in 1954.<ref name="POWO"/>
Species, according to Kew;<ref name="POWO" /> *''Jacobsenia hallii'' {{small|L.Bolus}} *''Jacobsenia kolbei'' {{small|(L.Bolus) L.Bolus & Schwantes}}
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Category:Aizoaceae Category:Aizoaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1954 Category:Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces Category:Taxa named by Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes Category:Taxa named by Louisa Bolus