''Malagasia'' is a monotypic genus of trees in the family

Proteaceae The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Pro ...

. The sole species is ''Malagasia alticola'', endemic to Madagascar. The species was originally described in 1963 by French botanist

René Capuron René ('' born again'' or ''reborn'' in French) is a common first name in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus. René is the masculine form of the name (Renée being the feminin ...

. Capuron included the new species in the genus '' Macadamia'', naming it ''Macadamia alticola''. The species was transferred to the newly erected genus ''Malagasia'' in 1975 by

Barbara Briggs Barbara Gillian Briggs (born 1934) is one of the foremost Australian botanists. The '' IK'' lists 205 names of plants which have been published or co-published by her. She was one of the botanists in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, of th1998APG ...

and Lawrie Johnson.

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Macadamieae Monotypic Proteaceae genera Endemic flora of Madagascar Taxa named by Barbara G. Briggs Taxa named by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson {{Proteaceae-stub