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

[1] The genus is distributed across is Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay in southern South America.

[1] As accepted by Kew; The genus name of Viviania is in honour of Domenico Viviani (1772–1840), an Italian botanist and naturalist.

[2] 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.