Plant Details

Accepted name:: Persea americana Mill. [Lauraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
abacate	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitãoa et al., 2014) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
abacateiro	Other	Farmacopeia Brasileira, 5th edn. (Anvisa, 2010) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) Uso de Pl. Med. em Minas Gerais (Brandão et al., 2010)
abokado	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
aguacate	Other	Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Guatemalan Med. Pl. Against Cancer (Cates et al., 2014) Guía de la Col. de Pl. Med. de PCTY (Méndez González et al., 2016) Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015) Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007) Pl. Med. de Matamba y Piñonal, Mexico (Escamilla et al., 2015) Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
ahuacate	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
ahuaquatl	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ali geta pera	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
aligator pear	Other	Tropical Trees of Costa Rica (Zuchowski et al., 2008)
alligator pear	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
alpokat	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
am-pier	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
apukado	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
aquacate	Other	Tropical Trees of Costa Rica (Zuchowski et al., 2008)
avocado	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) Tropical Trees of Costa Rica (Zuchowski et al., 2008) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
avocado oleum	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
avocado pear	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
avocado tree	Other	Med. & Magic Pl. from a Market, Brazil (de Albuquerque et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
avocadobaum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
avocadopalme	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
avocat	Other	Domestic Market in Herb. Med. in Benin (Quiroz et al., 2014) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
avocatier	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
avokado	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
avpcatier	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
awokado	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bolbia	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
bombia	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
butter fruit	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
butter pear	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
daun alpukat	Other	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 1st edn (sup. 1) (DKRI, 2010) Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017)
e li	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kanboni babilin	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kissi peya	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kuulup	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
lào lí	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
mentega	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
mountain pear	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mparachichi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mwembe mafuta	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
oon	Other	Guía de la Col. de Pl. Med. de PCTY (Méndez González et al., 2016)
palta	Other	Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) Tropical Trees of Costa Rica (Zuchowski et al., 2008)
palto	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
paya	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
pea	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
pear	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
persea americana	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
persea folium	Pharmaceutical	Farmacopeia Brasileira, 5th edn. (Anvisa, 2010)
perseae americanae folium	Pharmaceutical	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 1st edn (sup. 1) (DKRI, 2010) Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017)
perseae folium	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
pia	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
pie	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
poire d'alligator	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
sarin	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
sikya	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
ube bekee	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ube-oyibo	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
wagádi	Other	Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)
wani-nashi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
yóu lí	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
è lí	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
‫افوكادو‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
樟梨	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
油梨	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
酪梨	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
鳄梨	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaf, fruit		Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
Seeds		Tropical Trees of Costa Rica (Zuchowski et al., 2008)
Fruit		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
leaves, frond, bark, seed		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
leaves, seeds		Guía de la Col. de Pl. Med. de PCTY (Méndez González et al., 2016)
leaves, seed, pulp		Pl. Med. de Matamba y Piñonal, Mexico (Escamilla et al., 2015)
Leaves		Guatemalan Med. Pl. Against Cancer (Cates et al., 2014)
leaves	dry leaves	Domestic Market in Herb. Med. in Benin (Quiroz et al., 2014)
seed, aerial part, bark, leaf, fruit		Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
fruit, leaves, pulp	oil	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
leaf		Med. & Magic Pl. from a Market, Brazil (de Albuquerque et al., 2007)
leaves		Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017)
fruit, leaf		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
leaf		Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001)
leaf	vegetal drug, fluid extract	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
bark, seed, leaf		Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)
leaf		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
leaf		Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007)
bark, leaf, fruit		Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
leaf	dried leaves	Farmacopeia Brasileira, 5th edn. (Anvisa, 2010)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 35 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Laurus persea L. Sp. Pl.: 370 (1753).
Persea americana var. drimyfolia (Cham. & Schltdl.) S.F.Blake J. Washington Acad. Sci. 10: 15 (1920).
Persea drimyfolia Schltdl. & Cham. Linnaea 6: 365 (1831).
Persea gratissima C.F.Gaertn. Suppl. Carp.: 222 (1807).
Persea gratissima var. oblonga Meisn. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1): 53 (1864).
Persea gratissima var. vulgaris Meisn. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1): 53 (1864).
Persea leiogyna S.F.Blake J. Washington Acad. Sci. 10: 19 (1920).
Laurus indica Sieber ex Nees Syst. Laur.: 128 (1836), not validly publ.
Persea americana var. angustifolia Miranda Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 17: 129 (1946).
Persea americana var. aztec Popenoe Ceiba 1(2): 117 (1950).
Persea americana var. floccosa (Mez) Scora Avocado: 19 (2002), without exact basionym page.
Persea americana var. guatemalensis (L.O.Williams) Scora Avocado: 20 (2002), without exact basionym page.
Persea americana var. leiogyna (S.F.Blake) H.P.Kelsey & Dayton Standard. Pl. Names, ed. 2: 474 (1942).
Persea americana var. nubigena (L.O.Williams) L.E.Kopp Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 14(1): 19 (1966).
Persea americana var. steyermarkii (C.K.Allen) Scora Avocado: 19 (2002), without exact basionym page.
Persea americana var. tolimanensis (Zentmyer & Schieber) Scora Avocado: 21 (2002), basionym not validly publ.
Persea americana var. toltec Popenoe Ceiba 1(3): 227 (1951).
Persea americana var. zentmyeri (Schieber & B.Bergh) Scora Avocado: 19 (2002), basionym not validly publ.
Persea edulis Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 134 (1838), nom. superfl.
Persea floccosa Mez Jahrb. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 5: 148 (1889).
Persea gigantea L.O.Williams Ceiba 4: 39 (1953).
Persea gratissima var. drimyfolia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Mez Jahrb. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 5: 147 (1889).
Persea gratissima var. macrophylla Meisn. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1): 53 (1864).
Persea gratissima var. melanocarpa Phil. Anales Univ. Chile 91: 501 (1895).
Persea gratissima var. praecox Nees Syst. Laur.: 129 (1836).
Persea macrocarpa Raf. Med. Repos., ser. 2, 5: 352 (1808).
Persea nubigena L.O.Williams Ceiba 1: 55 (1950).
Persea nubigena var. guatemalensis L.O.Williams Econ. Bot. 31: 318 (1977).
Persea paucitriplinervia Lundell Wrightia 5: 146 (1975).
Persea persea (L.) Cockerell Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 19: 95 (1892), not validly publ.
Persea praecox Poepp. ex Nees Syst. Laur.: 129 (1836).
Persea steyermarkii C.K.Allen J. Arnold Arbor. 26: 286 (1945).
Persea sylvestris A.Rich. in R.de la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Cuba, Bot. 11: 186 (1850).
Persea tolimanensis Zentmyer & Schieber Acta Hort. 275: 384 (1990), no Latin descr. or type.
Persea zentmyeri Schieber & B.Bergh Calif. Avocado Soc. Yearb. 21: 202 (1987), no Latin descr. or type.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Laurus persea L.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Persea americana	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Pl. Med. de Matamba y Piñonal, Mexico (Escamilla et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Tropical Trees of Costa Rica (Zuchowski et al., 2008)
Persea americana L.	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Persea americana Mill	Guatemalan Med. Pl. Against Cancer (Cates et al., 2014)
Persea americana Mill.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Domestic Market in Herb. Med. in Benin (Quiroz et al., 2014) Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001) Farmacopeia Brasileira, 5th edn. (Anvisa, 2010) Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 1st edn (sup. 1) (DKRI, 2010) Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Guía de la Col. de Pl. Med. de PCTY (Méndez González et al., 2016) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med. & Magic Pl. from a Market, Brazil (de Albuquerque et al., 2007) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitãoa et al., 2014) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015) Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. & Fungi Project (2015) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015) Uso de Pl. Med. em Minas Gerais (Brandão et al., 2010) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Persea americana Miller	Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Persea americana Miller americana	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Persea americana Miller drymifolia (Schldl. & Cham.)S.F.Blake	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Persea americana Miller.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Persea americana P. Miller	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Persea americana var. americana	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
Persea americana var. drymifolia (Schldl. & Cham.)S.F.Blake	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
Persea drymifolia Chamission et Schlechtendhal	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Persea drymifolia Schldl. & Cham.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Persea gratisima L.	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
Persea gratissima	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Persea gratissima Gaertn, f,	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Persea gratissima Gaertn.	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
Persea gratissima Gaertner	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Persea gratissima Gaertner var. oblonga	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Persea gratissima Gaertner var. vulgaris	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Persea leiogyna S.F.Blake	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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