Pera (plant)

Pera is a genus of the flowering plant family Peraceae, 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
Fruits of Pera glabrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Peraceae
Genus: Pera
Mutis
Synonyms[1]
  • Perula Schreb.
  • Spixia Leandro
  • Peridium Schott
  • Schismatopera Klotzsch
  • Clistranthus Poit. ex Baill.

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]
  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

  • P. echinocarpa - Chaetocarpus echinocarpus

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Mutis, José Celestino Bruno. 1784. Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 5: 299
  3. Tropicos, genus Pera
  4. 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.
  5. Klotzsch, Johann Friedrich. 1859. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1859: 241, 246 in German


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