Velascoa is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Crossosomataceae.

[1] It is native to a single location (as far as known at the time of discovery) in Landa de Matamoros Municipality in Querétaro in central Mexico.

[2] The genus name of Velascoa is in honour of José María Velasco Gómez (1840–1912), a Mexican painter, polymath and naturalist.

[3] The Latin specific epithet of recondita means 'hidden', and was chosen to allude to being found in truly hidden locations, far from roads and villages, and for its habit of growing hidden in cracks amongst limestone boulders on inaccessible, vertical cliffs.

Because of the harsh climate, it took botanists five years, after discovering the plant, to collect flowers and mature fruit of an individual to make a good holotype, so the new species could be properly described.