      
Taxon: Persea americana Mill.
Genus: Persea subgenus: Persea
Family: Lauraceae.
Nomen number: 27393
Place of publication: Gard. dict. ed. 8: Persea no. 1. 1768
Name verified on: 23-Jan-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 19-Dec-2007
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions:
288 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- alligator-pear (Source: Aust Pl Common Names
) – English [Persea americana West Indian race]
- avocado (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- avocado-pear (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English [Persea americana West Indian race]
- Guatemalan avocado (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Persea americana Guatemalan race]
- lowland avocado (Source: Avocado
15. 2002) – English [Persea americana West Indian race]
- Mexican avocado (Source: Econ Bot
31:317.1977) – English [Persea americana Mexican race]
- Trapp avocado (Source: Mem NYBG
14:18. 1966) – English [Persea americana West Indian race]
- West Indian avocado (Source: Econ Bot
31:317.1977) – English [Persea americana West Indian race]
- e li (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- avocatier (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- avocatier du Guatemala (Source: Dict Rehm
[as P. schiedeana]) – French [Persea americana Guatemalan race]
- Avocado (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
- Avocadobaum (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- Avocadopalme (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
- abokado (Source: F Japan
) – Japanese Rōmaji
- wani-nashi (Source: F Japan
) – Japanese Rōmaji
- abacate (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- aguacate (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- palto (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- avokado (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
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Native:
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Northern Mexico: Mexico - San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas
Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Tabasco
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Belize - Corozal; Costa Rica - Alajuela, Puntarenas; El Salvador - Chalatenango, Santa Ana; Guatemala - Baja Verapaz, Chimaltenango, Huehuetenango, Jalapa, Quiche, Solola, Zacapa; Honduras - Atlantida, Copan, El Paraiso, Francisco Morazan, Intibuca; Nicaragua - Granada, Madriz, Matagalpa
Northern South America: Venezuela - Amazonas [requires confirmation]
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- PACIFIC
North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia; Pitcairn
Cultivated:
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Northern Mexico: Mexico - Nuevo Leon
Southern Mexico: Mexico - Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Veracruz
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica - Cartago, San Jose; El Salvador - San Salvador; Honduras - Olancho; Nicaragua - Chontales, Jinotega; Panama - Chiriqui, Panama
Northern South America: Venezuela - widely cultivated in tropics & subtropics
Other:
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Burger, W. C., ed.
1971–. Flora costaricensis.
- Chanderbali, A. S. et al.
2013. Chapter 3. Taxonomy and botany.
In: Schaffer, B. et al., eds., The avocado: botany, production and uses.
35.
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Hackett, C. & J. Carolane.
1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
- IPGRI.
New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
- Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry.
Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
- Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
- Iwatsuki, K. et al.
1993–. Flora of Japan.
- Kingsbury, J. M.
1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
- Kopp, L. E.
1966. A taxonomic revision of the genus Persea in the Western Hemisphere (Perseae-Lauraceae).
Mem. New York Bot. Gard.
14(1):15.
- Liogier, A. H.
1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-.
- Liogier, H. A.
1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- Munro, D. B.
Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Scora, R. W. et al.
2002. Taxonomy and botany.
In: Whiley, A. W. et al., eds., The avocado: botany, production and uses.
19–23. [this review accepts Persea americana with varieties].
- Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark.
1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
- Stevens, W. D. et al., eds.
2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
- Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds.
1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
- Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds.
1991. Edible fruits and nuts.
In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
2:249.
- Wagner, W. L. et al.
1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
- Williams, L. O.
1977. The avocados, a synopsis of the genus Persea, subg. Persea.
Econ. Bot.
31:315–320.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
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Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Persea americana Mill.:
Images:
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- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?27393 (22 May 2013)
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