Vailia

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|genus = Vailia

|parent_authority = Rusby

|species = mucronata

|authority = Rusby

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|Blepharodon bolivianum |Malme

|Blepharodon peruvianum |Schltr. }}

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Vailia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apocynaceae. It just contains one species, Vailia mucronata Rusby{{cite web |title=Vailia Rusby {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:3785-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=3 January 2022 |language=en}}

It is native to Bolivia, 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.{{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 |access-date=1 January 2021}} The Latin specific epithet of mucronata means sharp-edged, from mucro, sword-point or edge.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}

Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club Vol.25 on page 500 in 1898.