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### Author
Leschenault de la Tour, Jean Baptiste Louis \[Claude\] Théodore (1773-1826), French botanical explorer, e.g. on Le Naturaliste and Le Géographe (1801-1804) with Baudin; in India 1816-1821, Brazil 1823-1824.
**Abbreviated name**: *Lesch.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Lesch.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PC|PC]]; further material in [[Collection FI|FI]] (herb. Desf.).
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 325; Barnhart 2: 371; BM 3: 1094; Bossert p. 235; Clokie p. 198; CSP 3: 967, 6: 712, 12: 442; Dawson p. 530, 943; Frank 3(Anh.): 57; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Lesch."); IH 2: 434; Lasègue p. 271-275, 430-432, 574; PR 5225-5226 (ed. 1: 5779-5780); Rehder 5: 505; SK 1: xxvi, 321-322, 8: lx-lxi; Tucker 1: 424; Zander ed. 10, p. 684.
- Alain, Hermano, Contr. ocas. Mus. Hist. nat. "De la Salle" 15(1-2): 1-2. 1956.
- Anon., Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 5(2): 626-627. 1827.
- Coats, A. M., The plant hunters 156, 205, 211, 223. 1969.
- Deschamps, L. A., *in* Didot, Nouv. Biogr. génér. 30: 923-927. 1859.
- Diels, L., Pflanzenw. W.-Austral. 42-44, 71, 72. 1906 (Veg. Erde vol. 7).
- E-S, *in* Michaud, Biogr. univ. 24: 294.
- Guillaumin, A., Les fleurs des Jardins xxxix. 1929.
- Jeandet, A., Bull. Soc. Sci. nat. Saone-et-Loire 2: 124-158. 1884 (portr., bibl.; based on orig. sources).
- Maiden, J. H., J. Proc. R. Soc. N.S.W. 44: 134-135. 1910.
- Pritzel, G. A., Linnaea 19: 456-457. 1847.
- Sirks, M. J., Ind. natuurond. 80, 102, 290. 1915.
- Urban, L, Fl. bras. 1(1): 41-42. 1906 (itin.).
- Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 114-115. 1903.
#### Handwriting
Candollea 31: 329-330. 1976.
#### Eponymy
*Lalouria* (Endlicher) Lindley (1847); *Lechenaullia* \[sic\] R. Brown (1810). *Note*: *Latouria* Blume (1849) is dedicated to Latour (*fl. 1822-1826*), botanical artist working for Blume.