# Persea

Persea Mill. è un genere di piante della famiglia delle Lauracee comprendente oltre 100 specie di piante arboree sempreverdi, delle quali la più conosciuta è l'avocado (Persea americana), coltivata nelle regioni subtropicali per il suo frutto edibile.

## Tassonomia

Il genere comprende le seguenti specie:
* Persea alba Nees & Mart.
* Persea albida Kosterm.
* Persea albiramea van der Werff
* Persea alpigena (Sw.) Spreng.
* Persea americana Mill.
* Persea areolatocostae (C.K.Allen) van der Werff
* Persea aurata Miq.
* Persea barbujana (Cav.) Mabb. & Nieto Fel.
* Persea benthamiana Meisn.
* Persea bernardii L.E.Kopp
* Persea bilocularis L.E.Kopp
* Persea boldufolia Mez
* Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng.
* Persea brenesii Standl.
* Persea brevipes Meisn.
* Persea brevipetiolata van der Werff
* Persea buchtienii O.C.Schmidt
* Persea bullata L.E.Kopp
* Persea caerulea (Ruiz & Pav.) Mez
* Persea caesia Meisn.
* Persea campii L.E.Kopp
* Persea chamissonis Mez
* Persea chrysantha Lorea-Hern.
* Persea chrysophylla L.E.Kopp
* Persea cinerascens S.F.Blake
* Persea conferta L.E.Kopp
* Persea corymbosa Mez
* Persea costata Meisn.
* Persea croatii van der Werff
* Persea croizatii van der Werff
* Persea cuatrecasasii Kosterm.
* Persea cuneata Meisn.
* Persea donnell-smithii Mez
* Persea fastigiata L.E.Kopp
* Persea fendleri van der Werff
* Persea ferruginea Kunth
* Persea filipes Rusby
* Persea fuliginosa Nees & Mart.
* Persea fulva L.E.Kopp
* Persea fusca Mez
* Persea glabra van der Werff
* Persea grandiflora L.E.Kopp
* Persea haenkeana Mez
* Persea hexanthera L.E.Kopp
* Persea hintonii C.K.Allen
* Persea hirta Nees
* Persea humilis Nash
* Persea hypoleuca (A.Rich.) Mez
* Persea indica (L.) Spreng.
* Persea jariensis Vattimo-Gil
* Persea jenmanii Mez
* Persea julianae van der Werff
* Persea kostermansii I.M.Turner
* Persea krugii Mez
* Persea laevifolia van der Werff
* Persea lemensis H.Ferrer & Sanoja
* Persea liebmannii Mez
* Persea lingue (Ruiz & Pav.) Nees
* Persea longipes (Schltdl.) Meisn.
* Persea maguirei L.E.Kopp
* Persea major (Meisn.) L.E.Kopp
* Persea meridensis L.E.Kopp
* Persea microneura Meisn.
* Persea microphylla (Mez) Mez
* Persea mutisii Kunth
* Persea negracotensis O.C.Schmidt
* Persea nivea Mez
* Persea nudigemma van der Werff
* Persea oblongifolia L.E.Kopp
* Persea obovata Nees & Mart.
* Persea obscura Lorea-Hern.
* Persea obtusifolia L.E.Kopp
* Persea pajonalis van der Werff
* Persea pallescens (Mez) Lorea-Hern.
* Persea palustris (Raf.) Sarg.
* Persea pedunculosa Meisn.
* Persea perglauca Lundell
* Persea perseiphylla (C.K.Allen) van der Werff
* Persea peruviana Nees
* Persea povedae W.C.Burger
* Persea pseudofasciculata L.E.Kopp
* Persea pumila P.L.R.Moraes & R.S.Pacheco
* Persea punctata Meisn.
* Persea purpusii L.E.Kopp
* Persea raimondii O.C.Schmidt
* Persea rigens C.K.Allen
* Persea rigida Nees & Mart.
* Persea rufescens Lundell
* Persea rufotomentosa Nees & Mart.
* Persea ruizii J.F.Macbr.
* Persea schiedeana Nees
* Persea sericea Kunth
* Persea sessilis Standl. & Steyerm.
* Persea silvatica van der Werff
* Persea sphaerocarpa (H.J.P.Winkl.) Kosterm.
* Persea splendens Meisn.
* Persea sprucei Kosterm.
* Persea standleyi C.K.Allen
* Persea stricta Mez
* Persea subcordata (Ruiz & Pav.) Nees
* Persea trollii O.C.Schmidt
* Persea urbaniana Mez
* Persea vanderwerffii Doweld
* Persea venosa Nees & Mart.
* Persea veraguasensis Seem.
* Persea vesticula Standl. & Steyerm.
* Persea weberbaueri Mez
* Persea willdenovii Kosterm.