See text Balbisia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Francoaceae.

[1] It is also in the Vivianiaceae subfamily.

[2] The genus is distributed across is Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru in southern South America.

[1][2] As accepted by Kew; The genus name of Balbisia is in honour of Giovanni Battista Balbis (1772–1840), an Italian botanist and politician who worked in Italy and France..[3] It was first described and published in Anales Ci.

[1] The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.