Letestuella

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

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

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. "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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