# Letestua

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|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](/source/Paul_Henri_Lecomte)
|species = durissima
|authority = ([A.Chev.](/source/Auguste_Chevalier)) [Lecomte](/source/Paul_Henri_Lecomte)
|synonyms_ref = <ref name=a/><ref name=k/>
|synonyms = *''Pierreodendron'' <small>A.Chev. 1917, illegitimate homonym, not ''[Pierreodendron](/source/Pierreodendron)'' Engl. 1907 ([Simaroubaceae](/source/Simaroubaceae))</small>
* ''Pierreodendron durissimum'' <small>A.Chev.</small>
*''Letestua floribunda'' <small>Lecomte</small>
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'''''Letestua''''' is a [monotypic](/source/monotypic_taxon) genus of [plant](/source/plant)s in the family [Sapotaceae](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Gabon) and [West Congo](/source/West_Congo).<ref name=a>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=111601 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref>

==References==
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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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