# Vickia

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***Vickia rotundifolia*** is a species of [flowering plant](/source/Flowering_plant) in the sunflower family, [Asteraceae](/source/Asteraceae). It is the sole species in genus ***Vickia***. It is a [subshrub](/source/Subshrub) or shrub native to the states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Paraná in southeastern and southern Brazil.[1]

Vickia is [monoecious](/source/Monoecious) shrub growing 30 to 50 cm tall. It is native to the [Cerrado](/source/Cerrado) ecoregion.[2]

The species was first described as *Gochnatia rotundifolia* by [Christian Friedrich Lessing](/source/Christian_Friedrich_Lessing) in 1832. In 2020 Nadia Roque and Gisela Sancho placed it in the new [monotypic](/source/Monotypic_taxon) genus *Vickia* as *Vickia rotundifolia*.[1] The genus name honors [Vicki Ann Funk](/source/Vicki_Ann_Funk), a Senior Research Botanist and Curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.[2]

## References

1. [*Vickia rotundifolia* (Less.) Roque & G.Sancho](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77213342-1). *[Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online)*. Retrieved 30 May 2024.

1. Roque, N. and Sancho, G. (2020), Vickia, a new genus of tribe Gochnatieae (Compositae). *Taxon*, 69: 668-678. [https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12283](https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12283)

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