''Vailia'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apocynaceae. It just contains one species, ''Vailia mucronata'' Rusby It is native to

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, Ecuador and Peru. The genus name of ''Vailia'' is in honour of Anna Murray Vail (1863–1955), an American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden. The Latin

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

of ''mucronata'' means sharp-edged, from ''mucro'', sword-point or edge. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club Vol.25 on page 500 in 1898.

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{{Taxonbar, from1=Q18340135, from2=Q15381681 Apocynaceae Monotypic Apocynaceae genera Plants described in 1898 Flora of Bolivia Flora of Ecuador Flora of Peru