Pera (plant)

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Pera
Pera glabrata fruits.jpg
Fruits of Pera glabrata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Peraceae
Genus: Pera
Mutis
Synonyms [1]
  • PerulaSchreb.
  • SpixiaLeandro
  • PeridiumSchott
  • SchismatoperaKlotzsch
  • ClistranthusPoit. ex Baill.

Pera is a genus of plants in the family Peraceae native to tropical America, from southern Mexico and the West Indies south as far as Paraguay. [1] [2] It first described as a genus in 1784. [3] [4]

Species [1]
  1. Pera androgyna - Distrito Federal in Brazil
  2. Pera anisotricha - Brazil
  3. Pera aperta - Panama
  4. Pera arborea Central America, Colombia, Venezuela
  5. Pera barbellata - S Mexico, N Central America
  6. Pera benensis - Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, NW Brazil
  7. Pera bicolor - NW Brazil, Venezuela, 3 Guianas
  8. Pera bumeliifolia - Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola
  9. Pera citriodora - S Venezuela, N Brazil
  10. Pera coccinea - Pará, Mato Grosso
  11. Pera colombiana - Colombia
  12. Pera decipiens - N South America
  13. Pera distichophylla - N South America
  14. Pera eiteniorum - Brazil
  15. Pera ekmanii - Cuba
  16. Pera elliptica - Bolivia
  17. Pera furfuracea - Bahia
  18. Pera glabrata - Trinidad, tropical S America
  19. Pera glomerata - Tortuga Island in Haiti
  20. Pera heteranthera - Brazil
  21. Pera longipes - Cuba
  22. Pera manausensis - Amazonas in Brazil
  23. Pera membranacea - Pará, Maranhão
  24. Pera microcarpa - Cuba
  25. Pera oppositifolia - Cuba
  26. Pera orientensis - Cuba
  27. Pera ovalifolia - Cuba
  28. Pera pallidifolia - Cuba
  29. Pera polylepis - Cuba
  30. Pera pulchrifolia - Amazonas in Brazil
  31. Pera rubra - Rio de Janeiro
  32. Pera tomentosa - S Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
Species [1]

moved to Chaetocarpus

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  1. Lacmellea abbreviataJ.F.Morales - Colombia
  2. Lacmellea aculeata(Ducke) Monach - Peru, NW Brazil, the Guianas
  3. Lacmellea arborescens(Müll.Arg.) Markgr. - Brazil, Bolivia
  4. Lacmellea bahiensisJ.F.Morales - Bahia
  5. Lacmellea costanensisSteyerm. - N Venezuela
  6. Lacmellea densifoliata(Ducke) Markgr. - Pará
  7. Lacmellea edulisH.Karst. - Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
  8. Lacmellea floribunda(Poepp.) Benth. & Hook.f. - Peru, NW Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana
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  10. Lacmellea gracilis(Müll.Arg.) Markgr. - N Peru, NW Brazil
  11. Lacmellea guyanensis(Müll.Arg.) Monach - French Guiana
  12. Lacmellea klugiiMonach. - Peru
  13. Lacmellea macranthaJ.F.Morales - Ecuador
  14. Lacmellea microcarpa(Müll.Arg.) Markgr. - Colombia, S Venezuela, NW Brazil
  15. Lacmellea oblongataMarkgr. - SE Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
  16. Lacmellea panamensis(Woodson) Markgr. - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
  17. Lacmellea pauciflora(Kuhlm.) Markgr. - Brazil
  18. Lacmellea peruviana(Van Heurck & Müll.Arg.) Markgr. - Peru
  19. Lacmellea pygmaeaMonach. - Amazonas State in Venezuela
  20. Lacmellea ramosissima(Müll.Arg.) Markgr. - Colombia, S Venezuela, NW Brazil
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  22. Lacmellea standleyi(Woodson) Monach. - Belize, Guatemala, Honduras
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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  3. ↑ Mutis, José Celestino Bruno. 1784. Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 5: 299
  4. ↑ Tropicos, genus Pera


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