Persea

Accepted species 110 Documented here 12 Family Lauraceae

Accepted species 110 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Persea palustris (Raf.) Sarg. 460 documented
Persea americana Mill. 264 documented
Persea barbujana (Cav.) Mabb. & Nieto Fel. 257 documented
Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng. 216 documented
Persea humilis Nash 76 documented
Persea lingue (Ruiz & Pav.) Nees 72 documented
Persea indica (L.) Spreng. 71 documented
Persea mutisii Kunth 25 documented
Persea caerulea (Ruiz & Pav.) Mez 17 documented
Persea obtusifolia L.E.Kopp 9 documented
Persea liebmannii Mez 4 documented
Persea schiedeana Nees 3 documented
Persea chamissonis Mez 2 below the evidence gate
Persea hintonii C.K.Allen 1 below the evidence gate
Persea alba Nees & Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea albida Kosterm. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea albiramea van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Persea alpigena (Sw.) Spreng. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea areolatocostae (C.K.Allen) van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Persea aurata Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea benthamiana Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea bernardii L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea bilocularis L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea boldufolia Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Persea brenesii Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea brevipes Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea brevipetiolata van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Persea buchtienii O.C.Schmidt 0 below the evidence gate
Persea bullata L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea caesia Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea campii L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea chrysantha Lorea-Hern. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea chrysophylla L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea cinerascens S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Persea conferta L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea cordata Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea corymbosa Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Persea costata Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea croatii van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Persea croizatii van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Persea cuatrecasasii Kosterm. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea cuneata Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea donnell-smithii Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Persea fastigiata L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea fendleri van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Persea ferruginea Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Persea filipes Rusby 0 below the evidence gate
Persea fuliginosa Nees & Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea fulva L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea fusca Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Persea glabra van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Persea grandiflora L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea haenkeana Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Persea hexanthera L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea hirta Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Persea hypoleuca (A.Rich.) Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Persea jariensis Vattimo-Gil 0 below the evidence gate
Persea jenmanii Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Persea julianae van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Persea kostermansii I.M.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Persea krugii Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Persea laevifolia van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Persea lemensis H.Ferrer & Sanoja 0 below the evidence gate
Persea longipes (Schltdl.) Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea maguirei L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea major (Meisn.) L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea meridensis L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea meziana Rasingam & Karthig. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea microneura Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea negracotensis O.C.Schmidt 0 below the evidence gate
Persea nivea Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Persea nudigemma van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Persea oblongifolia L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea obovata Nees & Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea obscura Lorea-Hern. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea pajonalis van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Persea pallescens (Mez) Lorea-Hern. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea pedunculosa Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea perglauca Lundell 0 below the evidence gate
Persea perseiphylla (C.K.Allen) van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Persea peruviana Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Persea povedae W.C.Burger 0 below the evidence gate
Persea psammophila P.L.R.Moraes 0 below the evidence gate
Persea pseudofasciculata L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea pumila P.L.R.Moraes & R.S.Pacheco 0 below the evidence gate
Persea punctata Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea purpusii L.E.Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Persea raimondii O.C.Schmidt 0 below the evidence gate
Persea rigens C.K.Allen 0 below the evidence gate
Persea rigida Nees & Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea rufescens Lundell 0 below the evidence gate
Persea rufotomentosa Nees & Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea ruizii J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea sericea Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Persea sessilis Standl. & Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea silvatica van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Persea sphaerocarpa (H.J.P.Winkl.) Kosterm. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea splendens Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea sprucei Kosterm. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea standleyi C.K.Allen 0 below the evidence gate
Persea stricta Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Persea subcordata (Ruiz & Pav.) Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Persea trollii O.C.Schmidt 0 below the evidence gate
Persea urbaniana Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Persea vanderwerffii Doweld 0 below the evidence gate
Persea venosa Nees & Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea veraguasensis Seem. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea vesticula Standl. & Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Persea weberbaueri Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Persea willdenovii Kosterm. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.