{{short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Roycea pycnophylloides - Flickr - Kevin Thiele.jpg |image_caption = ''Roycea pycnophylloides'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Roycea |authority = C.A.Gardner<ref name=apni>{{APNI2|id=77696|name=''Roycea''}}</ref><ref name=gardner>{{cite journal|author=Gardner, C.A. |date=1948|title= Contributiones Florae Australiae Occidentalis, XII|journal= Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia|volume= 32|pages= 77, t. II|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53031422}}</ref> |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text |synonyms = |synonyms_ref = }}
'''''Roycea''''' is a genus of plants formerly in the family Chenopodiaceae, and now in the Amaranthaceae. The genus was first described in 1948 by Charles Austin Gardner,<ref name=apni/> and the genus name honours Robert Dunlop Royce (a helper at the Perth Herbarium).<ref name=gardner/> The entire genus is endemic to Western Australia.<ref name="florabase">{{FloraBase|id=|name=''Roycea''}}</ref> There are no synonyms.<ref name="apni" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:6979-1|title=Roycea C.A.Gardner {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science|website=Plants of the World Online|access-date=2020-03-22}}</ref>
==Species== (listed by both Plants of the World online,<ref name=":0" /> and FloraBase.)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/search/advanced.php|title=Roycea (genus & species) FloraBase—the Western Australian Flora|publisher=Western Australian HerbariumBiodiversity and Conservation Science|website=florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au|language=en|access-date=2020-03-22}}</ref>
*''Roycea divaricata'' <small>Paul G.Wilson</small> *''Roycea pycnophylloides'' <small>C.A.Gardner</small> *''Roycea spinescens'' <small>C.A.Gardner</small>
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Category:Roycea Category:Eudicots of Western Australia Category:Taxa named by Charles Gardner Category:Amaranthaceae genera