Pera (plant)
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| Tribe: | Pereae
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| Genus: | Pera |
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Pera is a genus of the flowering plant family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1784.[2][3] It is native to tropical America, from southern Mexico and the West Indies south as far as Paraguay.[1][4]
Pera differs from other Euphorbiaceae in several characteristics and some classifications place it in its own family, Peraceae,[5] rather than include Rafflesiaceae into the Euphorbiaceae.
- Species[1]
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- Species[1]
moved to Chaetocarpus
- P. echinocarpa - Chaetocarpus echinocarpus
References
- ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Mutis, José Celestino Bruno. 1784. Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 5: 299
- ^ Tropicos, genus Pera
- ^ 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.
- ^ Klotzsch, Johann Friedrich. 1859. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1859: 241, 246 in German
External links
- Peraceae in Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 7, May 2006.
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