Dintera

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|genus = Dintera

|parent_authority = Otto Stapf (1900)

|species = pterocaulis

|authority = Stapf (1900)

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Dintera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae. It contains just one species, Dintera pterocaulis Stapf, which comes from Namibia.{{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}}

The genus name of Dintera is in honour of Kurt Dinter (1868–1945), a German botanist and explorer in South West Africa.{{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}} 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.{{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}}