Persea meziana Rasingam & Karthig., 2021

Rasingam, Ladan & Karthigeyan, Kaliyamurthy, 2021, Two new names in the family Lauraceae, Phytotaxa 491 (2), pp. 191-192 : 191

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.491.2.9

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Persea meziana Rasingam & Karthig.
status

nom. nov.

Persea meziana Rasingam & Karthig. View in CoL nom. nov.

Replaced name:— Persea microphylla (Mez) Mez (1892: 115) nom. illeg. non Persea microphylla Engelhardt (1891: 650) . Basionym:— Persea cordata var. microphylla Mez (1889: 166) . Type:— BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro, Nova Friburgo, February 1888, A. Glaziou 17182 (BR barcode BR0000008685360, C barcode

C10013795, K barcode K000512721, lower left fragment only, P barcode P01991999; photo MO barcode MO-305128 [F negative

22090]).

Etymology:—The specific epithet is named to honour C. C. Mez (1866–1944), a German botanist who worked extensively on the Neotropical Lauraceae and Bromeliaceae .

Distribution:— Persea meziana is reported from the South Eastern parts of Brazil ( POWO 2019).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Laurales

Family

Lauraceae

Genus

Persea

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