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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Speciesbox
|genus = Vickia
|parent_authority = Roque & G.Sancho (2020)
|species = rotundifolia
|authority = ([[Christian Friedrich Lessing|Less.]]) Roque & G.Sancho (2020)
|synonyms = ''Gochnatia rotundifolia'' {{small|Less. (1832)}}
|synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77213342-1 ''Vickia rotundifolia'' (Less.) Roque & G.Sancho]. ''[[Plants of the World Online]]''. Retrieved 30 May 2024.</ref>
}}
'''''Vickia rotundifolia''''' is a species of [[flowering plant]] in the sunflower family, [[Asteraceae]]. It is the sole species in genus '''''Vickia'''''. It is a [[subshrub]] or shrub native to the states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Paraná in southeastern and southern Brazil.<ref name = powo/>
Vickia is [[monoecious]] shrub growing 30 to 50 cm tall. It is native to the [[Cerrado]] ecoregion.<ref name = Roque>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</ref>
The species was first described as ''Gochnatia rotundifolia'' by [[Christian Friedrich Lessing]] in 1832. In 2020 Nadia Roque and Gisela Sancho placed it in the new [[monotypic taxon|monotypic]] genus ''Vickia'' as ''Vickia rotundifolia''.<ref name = powo/> The genus name honors [[Vicki Ann Funk]], a Senior Research Botanist and Curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.<ref name = Roque/>
==References==
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[[Category:Gochnatioideae]]
[[Category:Monotypic Asteraceae genera]]
[[Category:Flora of South Brazil]]
[[Category:Flora of Southeast Brazil]]
[[Category:Flora of the Cerrado]]
[[Category:Endemic flora of Brazil]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1832]]