Persea Mill., 1754 è un genere di piante della famiglia delle Lauracee comprendente oltre 100 specie di piante arboree sempreverdi, delle quali la più conosciuta è l'avocado (Persea americana), coltivata nelle regioni subtropicali per il suo frutto edibile.
Tassonomia Il genere comprende le seguenti specie:
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 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 microphylla (Mez) Mez 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.
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Bibliografia L. E. Koop "A taxonomic revision of the genus Persea in the western hemisphere (Persea-Lauraceae)" Memoirs of the New York Botanical Gardens 14(1): 1-120 (1966).
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Categoria:Lauraceae Categoria:Taxa classificati da Philip Miller Categoria:Taxa descritti nel 1754