Roigella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae.
[2] It only contains one known species, Roigella correifolia (Griseb.)
[3] The genus name of Roigella is in honour of Juan Tomás Roig (1877–1971), a Cuban teacher and botanist in Havana.
[4] 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.