Saintpauliopsis

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|taxon = Saintpauliopsis

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|synonyms = Staurogyne lebrunii {{small|(Staner) B.L.Burtt}}

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Saintpauliopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.{{cite web |title=Saintpauliopsis Staner {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17205-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=20 May 2021 |language=en}} It only contains one known species, Saintpauliopsis lebrunii Staner

It is native to Burundi, Gabon, Madagascar, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zaïre.

Saintpauliopsis was originally classified in the family Gesneriaceae and the genus name, meaning "similar to Saintpaulia" (now synonymized under Streptocarpus), indirectly honors Walter Le Tanneux de Saint Paul-Illaire (1860–1940), a German imperial precinct captain in German East Africa (roughly present-day Tanzania), and his father, Ulrich Maximilian von Saint Paul-Illaire (1833–1902), a German naval officer and court official.{{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}} The Latin specific epithet of lebrunii refers to Belgian botanist Lebrun, Jean Paul Antoine (1906-1985).{{cite web |title=Lebrun, Jean Paul Antoine {{!}} International Plant Names Index |url=https://www.ipni.org/a/5380-1 |website=www.ipni.org |access-date=5 December 2021}} It was first described and published in Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles Vol.13 on page 8 in 1934.