Persea est genus 150 specierum arborum sempervirentium familiae Lauracearum.[2] 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[3]
- Aliae species
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.)[3]
