Gunniopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the iceplant family, Aizoaceae.

[1] Gunniopis comprises 14 species[2] that were once members of the genera Aizoon, Gunnia and Neogunnia.

[3] The name of the genus honours the botanist and politician Ronald Campbell Gunn.

The genus was first formally described by the botanist Ferdinand Pax in 1889 in Engler and Prantl's work Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien.

[4] Members of this genus are succulents with the habit of a small shrub or herb.