Roigella

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|taxon = Roigella

|authority = Borhidi & M.Fernández

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|synonyms = Rondeletia correifolia {{small|Griseb.}}

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Roigella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae.{{cite web |title=Roigella Borhidi & M.Fernández {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:893095-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 March 2021 |language=en}} It only contains one known species, Roigella correifolia {{small|(Griseb.) Borhidi & M.Fernández}}

It is native to Cuba. It is found in pineland habitats.{{cite journal |last1=Pellegrini |first1=Marco O. O. |last2=Hickman |first2=Ellen J. |last3=Guttiérrez |first3=Jorge E. |last4=Smith |first4=Rhian J. |last5=Hopper |first5=Stephen D. |title=Revisiting the taxonomy of the Neotropical Haemodoraceae (Commelinales) |journal=PhytoKeys |date=2020 |issue=169 |pages=1–59|doi=10.3897/phytokeys.169.57996 |pmid=33354138 |pmc=7732820 |doi-access=free }}

The genus name of Roigella is in honour of Juan Tomás Roig (1877–1971), a Cuban teacher and botanist in Havana.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}} It is not known what the Latin specific epithet of correifolia means.

Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Acta Bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. Vol.27 on page 310 (1981, published in 1982).