Roycea

Roycea is a genus of plants formerly in the family Chenopodiaceae, and now in the Amaranthaceae. The genus was first described in 1948 by Charles Austin Gardner,^[1] and the genus name honours Robert Dunlop Royce (a helper at the Perth Herbarium).^[2] The entire genus is endemic to Western Australia.^[3] There are no synonyms.^[1][4]

Roycea
Roycea pycnophylloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Amaranthaceae
Subfamily:	Camphorosmoideae
Tribe:	Camphorosmeae
Genus:	Roycea C.A.Gardner[1][2]
Species
See text

Species

(listed by both Plants of the World online,^[4] and FloraBase.)^[5]

• Roycea divaricata Paul G.Wilson
• Roycea pycnophylloides C.A.Gardner
• Roycea spinescens C.A.Gardner