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The genus Persea is in the family Lauraceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Persea

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Persea alba Nees & Mart.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea albida Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea americana Mill.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea areolatocostae (C.K.Allen) van der Werff	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea benthamiana Meisn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea bernardii L.E.Kopp	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea boldufolia Mez	Accepted		TRO
Persea bootanica (Meisn.) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng.	Accepted		TRO
Persea brenesii Standl.	Accepted		TRO
Persea brevipes Meisn.	Accepted		TRO
Persea brevipetiolata van der Werff	Accepted		TRO
Persea bullata L.E. Kopp	Accepted		TRO
Persea caerulea (Ruiz & Pav.) Mez	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea campii L.E. Kopp	Accepted		TRO
Persea carolinensis (Raf.) Nees	Accepted		TRO
Persea chamissonis Mez	Accepted		TRO
Persea chayuensis (S.K. Lee) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea chrysantha Lorea-Hern.	Accepted		TRO
Persea chunii (H.T. Chang ex S.C. Lee) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea cinerascens Blake	Accepted		TRO
Persea conferta L.E. Kopp	Accepted		TRO
Persea corymbosa Mez	Accepted		TRO
Persea croatii van der Werff	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea croizatii van der Werff	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea cuneata Meisn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea curranii (Merr.) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea declinata (Blume) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea donnell-smithii Mez	Accepted		TRO
Persea effusa (Meisn.) Hemsl.	Accepted		TRO
Persea excelsa (Blume) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea fastigiata L.E.Kopp	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea fendleri van der Werff	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea fluviatilis van der Werff	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea fragrans (Kaneh. ex S.C. Lee) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea fruticosa (Kurz) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea fuliginosa Nees & Mart.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea fulva L.E.Kopp	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea grandiflora L.E.Kopp	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea grandis Mez	Accepted		TRO
Persea haenkeana Mez	Accepted		TRO
Persea hartwegii (Meisn.) Hemsl.	Accepted		TRO
Persea hemsleyi (Nakai) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea hexanthera L.E. Kopp	Accepted		TRO
Persea hintonii C.K. Allen	Accepted		TRO
Persea hirta Nees	Accepted		TRO
Persea humilis Nash	Accepted		TRO
Persea indica (L.) Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea jenmanii Mez	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea levinei (Merr.) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea liebmannii Mez	Accepted		TRO
Persea lingue (Miers ex Bertero) Nees	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea longipes (Schltdl.) Meisn.	Accepted		TRO
Persea macrantha (Nees) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea maguirei L.E.Kopp	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea major (Meisn.) L.E.Kopp	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea melanophylla (H.W. Li) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea meridensis L.E.Kopp	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea mutisii Kunth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea nudigemma van der Werff	Accepted		TRO
Persea obovata Nees & Mart.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea obscura Lorea-Hern.	Accepted		TRO
Persea obtusifolia L.E. Kopp	Accepted		TRO
Persea odoratissima (Nees) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea pajonalis van der Werff	Accepted		TRO
Persea pallescens (Mez) Lorea-Hern.	Accepted		TRO
Persea pallida (Nees) Oliv.	Accepted		TRO
Persea palustris (Raf.) Sarg.	Accepted		TRO
Persea peduncularis (Nees) Nees	Accepted		TRO
Persea pedunculata (Blume) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea pedunculosa Meisn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea perseiphylla (C.K.Allen) van der Werff	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea peruviana Nees	Accepted		TRO
Persea petiolaris (Meisn.) Deb	Accepted		TRO
Persea pierrei (Lecomte) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea pseudofasciculata L.E.Kopp	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea purpusii L.E. Kopp	Accepted		TRO
Persea pyrifolia Nees	Accepted		TRO
Persea raimondii O. Schmidt	Accepted		TRO
Persea rigens C.K.Allen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea rigida Nees & Mart.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea rufescens Lundell	Accepted		TRO
Persea ruizii J.F.Macbr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea schiedeana Nees	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea sericea Kunth	Accepted		TRO
Persea shiwandashanica (Hung T. Chang) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea sphaerocarpa (H.J.P.Winkl.) Kosterm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea standleyi C.K.Allen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea stricta Mez	Accepted		TRO
Persea subcordata (Ruiz & Pav.) Nees	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea tomentosa (D. Don) Spreng.	Accepted		TRO
Persea triplinervis (Griseb.) M. Gómez	Accepted		TRO
Persea trollii O.C. Schmidt	Accepted		TRO
Persea venosa Nees & Mart.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea veraguasensis Seem.	Accepted		TRO
Persea vesticula Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persea wangchiana (Chun) Kosterm.	Accepted		TRO
Persea weberbaueri Mez	Accepted		TRO
Persea willdenovii Kosterm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 429 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Persea. Of these 99 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 32 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Persea. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 429 species names for the genus Persea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	99	23.1%
◕	Synonym	209	48.7%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.2%
◕	Unassessed	120	28.0%

All names

The status of the 461 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Persea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	104	22.6%
◕	Synonym	235	51.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.2%
◕	Unassessed	121	26.2%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 429 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Persea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	98	199	0	0	297	69.2%
	Low confidence	1	10	1	120	132	30.8%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Persea, are as follows: