{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Speciesbox |image = |image_caption = |genus = Dintera |parent_authority = Otto Stapf (1900) |species = pterocaulis |authority = Stapf (1900) }}
'''''Dintera''''' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae. It contains just one species, '''''Dintera pterocaulis''''' <small>Stapf</small>, which comes from Namibia.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Dintera'' Stapf {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37597-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=15 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
The genus name of ''Dintera'' is in honour of Kurt Dinter (1868–1945), a German botanist and explorer in South West Africa.<ref>{{cite book | last=Quattrocchi | first=Umberto | title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L | publisher=CRC Press | location=Boca Raton, Florida | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-8493-2676-9}}</ref> The Latin specific epithet of ''pterocaulis'' refers to ''petro'' meaning rock or stone and 'caulis' (a Greek word) meaning stem or stalk.{{source needed|reason='Caulis' is Latin en not Greek and ''petro'' is probably a corruption of πέτρα.|date=March 2025}} It was first published and described by German botanist Otto Stapf in Mém. Herb. Boissier Vol.20 on page 29 in 1900.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Dintera pterocaulis'' Stapf {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:802104-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=28 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
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Category:Plantaginaceae Category:Monotypic Plantaginaceae genera Category:Endemic flora of Namibia Category:Plants described in 1900 Category:Taxa named by Otto Stapf