Letestua
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| Genus: | Letestua Lecomte
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| Letestua durissima (A.Chev.) Lecomte
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Letestua is a monotypic genus of plant in family Sapotaceae, described as a genus in 1917.[2][3][4]
The genus name of Letestua is in honour of Georges Marie Patrice Charles Le Testu (1877–1967), who was a French colonial administrator in tropical Africa and later worked at a botanical garden in Caen.[5]
There is only one recognized species, Letestua durissima. It is native to Gabon and West Congo.[1]
References
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ a b Tropicos, Letestua Lecomte
- ^ Chevalier, Auguste Jean Baptiste. 1917. Les végétaux Utiles de l'Afrique Tropical Française 9: 257
- ^ Lecomte, Paul Henri. 1920. Notulae Systematicae. Herbier du Museum de Paris 4: 3-7 descriptions in Latin, commentary in French, line drawings as illustrations
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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