- Family:
- Lauraceae Juss.
Persea Mill.
Native to:
Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Canary Is., Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Madeira, Maryland, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Virginia, Windward Is.
Introduced into:
Argentina Northwest, Assam, Azores, Bangladesh, Burkina, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Central American Pac, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Cyprus, East Himalaya, Easter Is., Fiji, Galápagos, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Hawaii, India, Kenya, Laos, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, New York, New Zealand North, Pitcairn Is., Rodrigues, Réunion, Society Is., Solomon Is., Sudan, Taiwan, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Zaïre
- Persea alba Nees & Mart.
- Persea albida Kosterm.
- Persea albiramea van der Werff
- Persea alpigena (Sw.) Spreng.
- Persea americana Mill.
- Persea areolatocostae (C.K.Allen) van der Werff
- Persea aurata Miq.
- Persea barbujana (Cav.) Mabb. & Nieto Fel.
- Persea benthamiana Meisn.
- Persea bernardii L.E.Kopp
- Persea bilocularis L.E.Kopp
- Persea boldufolia Mez
- Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng.
- Persea brenesii Standl.
- Persea brevipes Meisn.
- Persea brevipetiolata van der Werff
- Persea buchtienii O.C.Schmidt
- Persea bullata L.E.Kopp
- Persea caerulea (Ruiz & Pav.) Mez
- Persea caesia Meisn.
- Persea campii L.E.Kopp
- Persea chamissonis Mez
- Persea chrysantha Lorea-Hern.
- Persea chrysophylla L.E.Kopp
- Persea cinerascens S.F.Blake
- Persea conferta L.E.Kopp
- Persea cordata Meisn.
- Persea corymbosa Mez
- Persea costata Meisn.
- Persea croatii van der Werff
- Persea croizatii van der Werff
- Persea cuatrecasasii Kosterm.
- Persea cuneata Meisn.
- Persea donnell-smithii Mez
- Persea fastigiata L.E.Kopp
- Persea fendleri van der Werff
- Persea ferruginea Kunth
- Persea filipes Rusby
- Persea fuliginosa Nees & Mart.
- Persea fulva L.E.Kopp
- Persea fusca Mez
- Persea glabra van der Werff
- Persea grandiflora L.E.Kopp
- Persea haenkeana Mez
- Persea hexanthera L.E.Kopp
- Persea hintonii C.K.Allen
- Persea hirta Nees
- Persea humilis Nash
- Persea hypoleuca (A.Rich.) Mez
- Persea indica (L.) Spreng.
- Persea jariensis Vattimo-Gil
- Persea jenmanii Mez
- Persea julianae van der Werff
- Persea kostermansii I.M.Turner
- Persea krugii Mez
- Persea laevifolia van der Werff
- Persea lemensis H.Ferrer & Sanoja
- Persea liebmannii Mez
- Persea lingue (Ruiz & Pav.) Nees
- Persea longipes (Schltdl.) Meisn.
- Persea maguirei L.E.Kopp
- Persea major (Meisn.) L.E.Kopp
- Persea meridensis L.E.Kopp
- Persea microneura Meisn.
- Persea mutisii Kunth
- Persea negracotensis O.C.Schmidt
- Persea nivea Mez
- Persea nudigemma van der Werff
- Persea oblongifolia L.E.Kopp
- Persea obovata Nees & Mart.
- Persea obscura Lorea-Hern.
- Persea obtusifolia L.E.Kopp
- Persea pajonalis van der Werff
- Persea pallescens (Mez) Lorea-Hern.
- Persea palustris (Raf.) Sarg.
- Persea pedunculosa Meisn.
- Persea perglauca Lundell
- Persea perseiphylla (C.K.Allen) van der Werff
- Persea peruviana Nees
- Persea povedae W.C.Burger
- Persea pseudofasciculata L.E.Kopp
- Persea pumila P.L.R.Moraes & R.S.Pacheco
- Persea punctata Meisn.
- Persea purpusii L.E.Kopp
- Persea raimondii O.C.Schmidt
- Persea rigens C.K.Allen
- Persea rigida Nees & Mart.
- Persea rufescens Lundell
- Persea rufotomentosa Nees & Mart.
- Persea ruizii J.F.Macbr.
- Persea schiedeana Nees
- Persea sericea Kunth
- Persea sessilis Standl. & Steyerm.
- Persea silvatica van der Werff
- Persea sphaerocarpa (H.J.P.Winkl.) Kosterm.
- Persea splendens Meisn.
- Persea sprucei Kosterm.
- Persea standleyi C.K.Allen
- Persea stricta Mez
- Persea subcordata (Ruiz & Pav.) Nees
- Persea trollii O.C.Schmidt
- Persea urbaniana Mez
- Persea vanderwerffii Doweld
- Persea venosa Nees & Mart.
- Persea veraguasensis Seem.
- Persea vesticula Standl. & Steyerm.
- Persea weberbaueri Mez
- Persea willdenovii Kosterm.
Persea Mill. appears in other Kew resources:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamb, A. [MTED 187], Malaysia | 61184.000 | No |
First published in Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4: s.p. (1754)
Accepted by
- Rodrigues de Moraes, P.L. (2012). The Lauraceae collected in Brazil by Ludwig Riedel - I. Harvard Papers in Botany 17: 185-216.
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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