Letestua

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|status = LC

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author= Hills, R. |date=2019 |title= Letestua durissima |volume=2019 |page= e.T61963483A61963486 |doi= 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T61963483A61963486.en |access-date=10 December 2022}}

|display_parents = 2

|genus = Letestua

|parent_authority = Lecomte

|species = durissima

|authority = (A.Chev.) Lecomte

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|synonyms = *Pierreodendron A.Chev. 1917, illegitimate homonym, not Pierreodendron Engl. 1907 (Simaroubaceae)

• Pierreodendron durissimum A.Chev.
• Letestua floribunda Lecomte

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Letestua is a monotypic genus of plants in the family Sapotaceae, described as a genus in 1917.[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40005540 Tropicos, Letestua Lecomte ]Chevalier, Auguste Jean Baptiste. 1917. Les végétaux Utiles de l'Afrique Tropical Française 9: 257[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

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.{{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 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}

There is only one recognized species, Letestua durissima. It is native to Gabon and West Congo.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=111601 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]