{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |taxon = Staufferia |authority = Z.S.Rogers, Nickrent & Malécot }} '''''Staufferia''''' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Santalaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Staufferia'' Z.S.Rogers, Nickrent & Malécot {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77095592-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=23 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It just contains one species, '''''Staufferia capuronii''''' <small>Z.S.Rogers, Nickrent & Malécot</small> <ref name="POWO" />
It is native to Madagascar.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Staufferia'' is in honour of Hans Ulrich Stauffer (1929–1965), a Swiss botanist who traveled in South Africa, Australia and New Guinea; specialist in Santalaceae.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> The Latin specific epithet of ''capuronii'' is in honor of the French botanist René Capuron.<ref>{{cite web |title=Capuron, René Paul Raymond {{!}} International Plant Names Index |url=https://www.ipni.org/a/1390-1 |website=www.ipni.org |access-date=18 December 2021}}</ref> Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. Vol.95 on pages 394-395 in 2008.<ref name="POWO"/>
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Category:Santalaceae Category:Santalaceae genera Category:Endemic flora of Madagascar Category:Monotypic Santalales genera Category:Plants described in 2008