Verhuellia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Piperaceae. Verhuellia is a sister genus to all other Piperaceae, but has its own subfamily of Verhuellioideae.
It is native to Cuba and Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti).
As accepted by Kew:
The genus name of Verhuellia is in honour of Quirijn Maurits Rudolph Ver Huell (1787âÂÂ1860), a Dutch rear admiral, illustrator and entomologist. It was first described and published in Syst. Piperac. on page 47 in 1843.