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Lauraceae taxonomy
Note on Classification
List of names from TROPICOS - all other data entered by us.
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Persea americana Mill.
Nomenclature
Species:
Persea americana Mill.
Usage:
accepted
Reference:
The Gardeners Dictionary [pages not numbered]
Vernacular names:
Vernacular name:
Avocado
Vernacular name:
Aguacate
Vernacular name:
Aguacate cimarrón
Vernacular name:
aguacate de perro
Vernacular name:
aguacate morado
Vernacular name:
palta
Reference for current status:
van der Werff, Novon 12: 580. 2002.
unprocessed publication data:
Gard, Dict. ed. 8. 1768
Original type data:
Persea (Americana.) Clus. Hist. The Avocado, or Avogato Pear.
This tree grows in great plenty in the Spanish West-Indies, and also in the island of Jamaica, and hath been transplanted into most of the English settlements in the West-indies on account of its fruit [...]
Additional type data:
Lectotype (designated by van der Werff, 2002a: 580): “Prunifera arbor, fructu maximo pyriformi viridi, pericarpio esculento butyraceo nucleum unicum maximum nullo ossiculo tectum, cingente. The Avocado or Alegator pear-tree,” in Sloane (A Voyage to the Islandas Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, vol. 2.: 132, t. 222, fig. 2. 1725). Original material: JAMAICA. Herb. Sloane Vol. VII: 77 (BM-SL 000594115).
Miscellaneous information:
van der Werff (Novon 12: 580. 2002.) pointed out that Kopp (1966: 17) had designated the description in Clusius (1601: 2) as lectotype of Laurus persea. However, since descriptions are not accepted as lectotypes, according to Art. 8.1 of ICN (McNeill et al., 2012), the illustration in Sloane (1725) has been designated as lectotype of Laurus persea L.
URL of protologue:
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10276#page/855/mode/1up
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