{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Speciesbox |image = |status = LC |status_system = IUCN3.1 |status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn |author= Hills, R. |date=2019 |title= ''Letestua durissima'' |volume=2019 |article-number= e.T61963483A61963486 |doi= 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T61963483A61963486.en |access-date=10 December 2022}}</ref> |display_parents = 2 |genus = Letestua |parent_authority = Lecomte |species = durissima |authority = (A.Chev.) Lecomte |synonyms_ref = <ref name=a/><ref name=k/> |synonyms = *''Pierreodendron'' <small>A.Chev. 1917, illegitimate homonym, not ''Pierreodendron'' Engl. 1907 (Simaroubaceae)</small> * ''Pierreodendron durissimum'' <small>A.Chev.</small> *''Letestua floribunda'' <small>Lecomte</small> }}
'''''Letestua''''' is a monotypic genus of plants in the family Sapotaceae, described as a genus in 1917.<ref name=k>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40005540 Tropicos, ''Letestua'' Lecomte ]</ref><ref>Chevalier, Auguste Jean Baptiste. 1917. Les végétaux Utiles de l'Afrique Tropical Française 9: 257</ref><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6463143#page/3/mode/1up Lecomte, Paul Henri. 1920. Notulae Systematicae. Herbier du Museum de Paris 4: 3-7] descriptions in Latin, commentary in French, line drawings as illustrations</ref>
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.<ref>{{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 |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 }}</ref>
There is only one recognized species, '''''Letestua durissima'''''. It is native to Gabon and West Congo.<ref name=a>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=111601 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref>
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Category:Sapotoideae Category:Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa Category:Monotypic Ericales genera Category:Taxa named by Auguste Chevalier Category:Sapotaceae genera
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