PI 34994 GRIN-Global

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Persea americana Mill. race west indian

Cultivar:

'Palta'

Origin:

Collected – Valparaíso, Chile

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

27 Feb 1913

PI Assigned:

1913

Inventory Volume:

34
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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Persea americana Mill. race west indian

Cultivar:

'Palta'

Origin:

Collected – Valparaíso, Chile

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

27 Feb 1913

PI Assigned:

1913

Source History

Collected

Valparaíso, Chile

Collector(s):

Wight, W.F., USDA - Bureau of Plant Industry

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Palta'

Type: Cultivar name

No. 21

Type: Collector identifier

Narrative

Persea americana Mill. race west indian

Genus:

Persea

Subgenus:

Persea

Family:

Lauraceae

Nomen number:

466757

Comment:

or Persea americana West Indian Group

Verified:

04/16/2013 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Persea americana Mill. (156 active accession[s])
Persea americana Mill. race guatemalan (0 active accession[s])
Persea americana Mill. race mexican (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Persea americana Mill. var. americana
Persea gratissima C. F. Gaertn.
Persea leiogyna S. F. Blake

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	alligator-pear	1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English	avocado-pear	1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English	lowland avocado	1	Scora, R. W. et al. 2002. Taxonomy and botany. In: Whiley, A. W. et al., eds., The avocado: botany, production and uses 21-22.
English	Trapp avocado	1	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.
English	West Indian avocado	1	Williams, L. O. 1977. The avocados, a synopsis of the genus Persea, subg. Persea. Econ. Bot. 31:317.

Annotations

Nomenclature Name Change: 17 Apr 2013, from Persea americana Mill. var. americana to Persea americana Mill. race west indian
The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received: 20 Jun 2000, from Persea gratissima C. F. Gaertn. to Persea americana Mill. var. americana

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Details for: PI 34994, Persea americana Mill. race west indian, 'Palta'