Group: Dicot Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, F, 102

Authors:

Linnaeus, Carl von

Published In: Species Plantarum 1: 370. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.)

Type-Protologue

Collector and Number: Habitat in America calida

Type Specimens

• LT: Sloane, Voy. Jamaica, 2: 132, t. 222, f. 2, (1725)

  • Lectotype designated by:  van der Werff, H. 2002. A synopsis of Persea (Lauraceae) in Central America. Novon 12(4): 580.
• LT: Clusius, Rar. Pl. Hist. 1: 2 (1601) LT invalid because descriptions cannot serve as lectotypes according to Article 8.1 of the St. Louis Code (fide van der Werff, 2002)

  • Lectotype designated by:  Kopp, L. E. 1966. A taxonomic revision of the genus Persea in the Western Hemisphere (Persea-Lauraceae). Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 14(1): 193.

New Name:

Persea americana Mill. 

*Persea edulis Raf. 

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Magnolianae Takht.
• order:  Laurales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl
• family:  !!Lauraceae Juss.
• genus:  Laurus L.

Other names for this basionym:

**Persea persea (L.) Cockerell

Projects: Ecuador , Mesoamericana

Keywords: CEC, FCC, FM, MAD