Details for: PI 40981, Persea americana Mill. race west indian, 'Merced'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Persea americana Mill. race west indian
Cultivar:
'Merced'
Origin:
Collected – Villa Clara, Cuba
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
26 Jul 1915
PI Assigned:
1915
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Persea americana Mill. race west indian
Cultivar:
'Merced'
Origin:
Collected – Villa Clara, Cuba
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
26 Jul 1915
PI Assigned:
1915
Source History
Collected
20 July 1915.
Villa Clara, Cuba

Collector(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
'Merced'
Type: Cultivar name

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
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishalligator-pear  1Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Englishavocado-pear  1Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Englishlowland avocado  1Scora, R. W. et al. 2002. Taxonomy and botany. In: Whiley, A. W. et al., eds., The avocado: botany, production and uses 21-22.
EnglishTrapp avocado  1Kopp, L. E. 1966. A taxonomic revision of the genus Persea in the Western Hemisphere (Perseae-Lauraceae). Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 14(1):15.
EnglishWest Indian avocado  1Williams, 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: 09 Nov 2000, from Persea gratissima C. F. Gaertn. to Persea americana Mill. var. americana
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