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Letestua
Sign in to saveLetestua is a monotypic genus of plants in the family Sapotaceae, described as a genus in 1917.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Sapotaceae
- Collections
- MO, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Gabon, Congo
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Sapotaceae
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- taxon name
- Letestua
- taxon rank
- genus
- endemic to
- New Caledonia
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Encyclopedic overview
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Letestua is a monotypic genus of plants in the family Sapotaceae, described as a genus in 1917.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Letestua” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.