''Vanzijlia'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

s belonging to the family

Aizoaceae The Aizoaceae, or fig-marigold family, is a large family of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing 135 genera and about 1800 species. They are commonly known as ice plants or carpet weeds. They are often called vygies in South Africa and New ...

. It only contains one known species, ''Vanzijlia annulata''. It is native to the Cape Provinces of the South African Republic. The genus name of ''Vanzijlia'' is in honour of Dorothy Constantia van Zijl (1886–1938), South African plant collector. 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 ''annulata'' means ring-shaped or with an

annulus Annulus (or anulus) or annular indicates a ring- or donut-shaped area or structure. It may refer to: Human anatomy * ''Anulus fibrosus disci intervertebralis'', spinal structure * Annulus of Zinn, a.k.a. annular tendon or ''anulus tendineus co ...

. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Fl. Pl. South Africa Vol.7 on table 262 in 1927. The genus is recognized by the

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and the

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, but they do not list any known species.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q3017988, from2=Q15611739 Aizoaceae Aizoaceae genera Taxa named by Louisa Bolus Plants described in 1927 Flora of the Cape Provinces Monotypic Caryophyllales genera