Staufferia

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Staufferia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Santalaceae.{{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}} It just contains one species, Staufferia capuronii Z.S.Rogers, Nickrent & Malécot

It is native to Madagascar.

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.{{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 capuronii is in honor of the French botanist René Capuron.{{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}} Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. Vol.95 on pages 394-395 in 2008.