Staavia

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

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|taxon = Staavia

|authority = Dahl

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|Astrocoma |Neck.

|Levisanus |Schreb. }}

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Staavia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bruniaceae.{{cite web |title=Staavia Dahl {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:5056-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=19 May 2021 |language=en}}

It is native to the Cape Provinces in the South African Republic.

The genus name of Staavia is in honour of Martin Staaf (1731–1788), a correspondent with Carl Linnaeus, in Gothenburg.{{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}}

It was first described and published in Observ. Bot. on page 15 in 1787.