''Letestua'' is a

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s in the family

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, described as a genus in 1917.Tropicos, ''Letestua'' Lecomte
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. There is only one recognized species, ''Letestua durissima''. It is native to

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and West Congo.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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References

Sapotoideae Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa Monotypic Ericales genera Taxa named by Auguste Chevalier Sapotaceae genera {{Sapotaceae-stub