Persea

Fructus Perseae americanae.

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Plantae — Angiospermae

Magnoliidae 
Ordo : Laurales 
Familia : Lauraceae 
Genus : Persea 
Mill.

   

Subdivisiones: Species

Vide commentarium.

Synonyma

*Machilus Nees (fortasse synonymum)

• Mutisiopersea Kosterm.
• Tamala Raf.

Flores Perseae americanae.

Folia Perseae macranthae.

Persea est genus 150 specierum arborum sempervirentium familiae Lauracearum. Notissima generis species est Persea americana, late in regionibus subtropicis proper eius fructus magnos et edules culta.

Classificatio

Genus Persea in tria subgenera digeritur. Machilus, subgenus Asianum, in Machilo, genere separato, multis auctoribus tractatur.

Subgenus Persea—Media America. Duae species.

• Persea americana Mill.
  • Persea americana var. drymifolia (Schltdl. & Cham.) S.F.Blake
  • Persea americana var. floccosa (Mez) Scora
  • Persea americana var. guatemalensis (L.O.Williams) Scora
  • Persea americana var. nubigena (L.O.Williams) L.E.Kopp
  • Persea americana var. steyermarkii (C.K.Allen) Scora
• Persea schiedeana Nees

Subgenus Eriodaphne (Mutisiopersea)—Americae et Macaronesia. Circa 70 species, inter quas

• Persea alpigena
• Persea brevipetiolata van der Werff in Mexico
• Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng.
• Persea caerulea (Ruiz & Pav.) Mez
• Persea cinerascens
• Persea donnell-smithii Mez
• Persea glabra
• Persea indica (L.) Spreng.
• Persea lingue (Ruiz & Pav.) Nees
• Persea longipes (Schltdl.) Meisn.
• Persea meyeniana Nees
• Persea palustris (Raf.) Sarg.
• Persea ruizii
• Persea skutchii

Subgenus Machilus—Asia. Circa 80 species, inter quas

• Persea edulis
• Persea ichangensis
• Persea japonica (Siebold & Zucc.) Kosterm.
• Persea kobu
• Persea macrantha
• Persea nanmu Oliv.
• Persea thunbergii (Siebold & Zucc.) Kosterm.
• Persea yunnanensis

Aliae species

• Persea julianae
• Persea liebmanni

Res olim hic positae

• Cinnamodendron cinnamomifolium (Kunth) Kosterm. (nomine P. cinnamomifolia Kunth vel P. mexicana (Meisn.) Hemsl.)
• Laurus azorica (Seub.) Franco (nomine P. azorica Seub.)

Etymologia

Philippus Miller vocabulum persea a Περσέα Graeco derivavit. A Theophrasto et Hippocrate arbori Aegyptae incertae, fortasse Cordiae myxae vel speciei Mimusopi adhibere solebatur.

Bibliographia

• Hogan, C. Michael. 2008. Chilean Wine Palm: Jubaea chilensis. GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg.
• Kostermans, André Joseph Guillaume Henri. 1993. Mutisiopersea Kostermans, a new genus in Lauraceae. Rheedea 3: 132–135.
• Kopp, Lucille. 1966. A taxonomic revision of the genus Persea in the Western Hemisphere (Persea-Lauracese). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 14(1):1–117.
• Quattrocchi, Umberto. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, vol. 3, M-Q. CRC Press. ISBN 9780849326776.

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Perseam spectant.

Vide "Persea" apud Vicispecies.

• De Persea americana et omni genere, praecipue subgenera Persea et Eriodaphne. avocadosource.com.
• Persea. Flora of North America. efloras.org.
• Machilus. Flora of China. efloras.org.