Letestuella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Podostemaceae
Genus: Letestuella
G.Taylor
Species:
L. tisserantii
Binomial name
Letestuella tisserantii
G.Taylor
Synonyms

Letestuella chevalieri G.Taylor

Letestuella is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Podostemaceae.[1] The only species is Letestuella tisserantii G.Taylor[2]

Its native range is western Tropical Africa to Namibia. It is also found in the countries of Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger and Togo.[2]

The genus name of Letestuella is in honour of Georges Marie Patrice Charles Le Testu (1877–1967), a French colonial administrator in tropical Africa and was later at a botanical garden in Caen.[3] The Latin specific epithet of tisserantii refers to botanist Charles Tisserant, (1886-1962).[4] Both genus and species were first described and published in Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. Vol.1 on page 57 in 1953.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Letestuella G.Taylor | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Letestuella tisserantii G.Taylor | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "Tisserant, Charles | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
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