{{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Stoeberia fructescens02.jpg |image_caption = ''Stoeberia fructescens'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Stoeberia |authority = Dinter & Schwantes |synonyms = ''Ruschianthemum'' {{small|Friedrich}} }}
'''''Stoeberia''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Stoeberia'' Dinter & Schwantes {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:16357-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=19 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
It is native to Namibia and also the Cape Provinces in the South African Republic.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Stoeberia'' is in honour of Ernst Stoeber (1889–1927?), a German teacher and botanist in Lüderitz in present-day Namibia.<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> It was first described and published in Z. Sukkulentenk. Vol.3 on page 17 in 1927.<ref name="POWO"/>
==Known species== According to Kew:<ref name="POWO" /> *''Stoeberia arborea'' {{small|van Jaarsv.}} *''Stoeberia beetzii'' {{small|(Dinter) Dinter & Schwantes}} *''Stoeberia carpii'' {{small|Friedrich}} *''Stoeberia frutescens'' {{small|(L.Bolus) van Jaarsv.}} *''Stoeberia giftbergensis'' {{small|(L.Bolus) van Jaarsv.}} *''Stoeberia gigas'' {{small|(Dinter) Dinter & Schwantes}} *''Stoeberia utilis'' {{small|(L.Bolus) van Jaarsv.}}
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Category:Aizoaceae Category:Aizoaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1927 Category:Flora of Namibia Category:Flora of the Cape Provinces Category:Taxa named by Kurt Dinter Category:Taxa named by Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes