''Vellosiella'' is a genus of

hemiparasitic A parasitic plant is a plant that derives some or all of its nutritional requirements from another living plant. They make up about 1% of angiosperms and are found in almost every biome. All parasitic plants develop a specialized organ called the ...

(a parasite under natural conditions, but remains

photosynthetic Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that, through cellular respiration, can later be released to fuel the organism's activities. Some of this chemical energy is stored in c ...

to at least some degree)

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s belonging to the family

Orobanchaceae Orobanchaceae, the broomrapes, is a family of mostly parasitic plants of the order Lamiales, with about 90 genera and more than 2000 species. Many of these genera (e.g., ''Pedicularis'', ''Rhinanthus'', ''Striga'') were formerly included in the ...

. It is native to

Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...

and

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

in northern South America and southern parts of Brazil.

Known species

As accepted by Kew: * '' Vellosiella dracocephaloides'' (Vell.) Baill. * '' Vellosiella spathacea'' (Oliv.) Melch. * '' Vellosiella westermanii'' Dusén The genus name of ''Vellosiella'' is in honour of

José Mariano de Conceição Vellozo José Mariano de Conceição Vellozo (also called José Mariano da Conceição Velloso) (1742–1811) was a Colonial Brazilian botanist who catalogued specimens, for example: ''Cedrela fissilis'' Vell. in ''Florae Fluminensis'' (1825–27; 1831). H ...

(1742–1811), a Colonial Brazilian botanist who catalogued many specimens. It was first described and published in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris Vol.1 n page 715 in 1888.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q9092833 Orobanchaceae Orobanchaceae genera Plants described in 1888 Flora of Guyana Flora of Venezuela Flora of South Brazil Flora of Southeast Brazil