Persea
Persea est genus 150 specierum arborum sempervirentium familiae Lauracearum. 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

Aliae species
 Persea julianae
 Persea liebmanni

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.)

Etymologia 
Philippus Miller vocabulum persea a Περσέα Graeco derivavit. A Theophrasto et Hippocrate arbori Aegyptae incertae, fortasse Cordiae myxae vel speciei Mimusopi adhibere solebatur.

Notae

Bibliographia 
 Hogan, C. Michael. 2008. Chilean Wine Palm: Jubaea chilensis. GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg.
 Kostermans, André Joseph Guillaume Henri. 1993. Mutisiopersea Kostermans, a new genus in Lauraceae. Rheedea 3: 132–135.
 Kopp, Lucille. 1966. A taxonomic revision of the genus Persea in the Western Hemisphere (Persea-Lauracese). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 14(1):1–117.
 Quattrocchi, Umberto. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, vol. 3, M-Q. CRC Press. ISBN 9780849326776.

Nexus externi 

 De Persea americana et omni genere, praecipue subgenera Persea et Eriodaphne. avocadosource.com.
 Persea. Flora of North America. efloras.org.
 Machilus. Flora of China. efloras.org.

 
Genera plantarum
Taxa Miller