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Persea americana Mill.

  • 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

Description

Laurus persea Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 370. 1753.

"Habitat in America calida." RCN: 2917.

Lectotype (van der Werff in Novon 12: 580. 2002): [icon] " Prunifera arbor, fructu maximo pyriformi viridi, pericarpio esculento butyraceo nucleum unicum maximum nullo ossiculo tectum, cingente " in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 2: 132, t. 222, f. 2. 1725. - Typotype: Herb. Sloane 7: 77 (BM-SL).

Current name: Persea americana Mill. (Lauraceae).

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L), pp. 610-650 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 616, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BM-SL
Family
Lauraceae
Genus
Persea
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
77
Order
Laurales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Mill.
Species
americana
Taxon rank
species
Type status
typotype