Biology:Letestuella

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Letestuella
Scientific classification edit
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

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