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Persea brevipetiolata

Family
Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Persea brevipetiolata is a plant species known from the Mexican States of Oaxaca and Veracruz. It is found in lowland forests in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec at elevations less than 250 m.

Persea brevipetiolata is a tree up to 8 m tall. Leaves are elliptical, thick and leathery, up to 16 cm long, with petioles less than 8 mm long, and with raised veins forming a conspicuous network on the underside. Flowers are about 4 mm in diameter, hairless, yellow-green. Fruits are spherical, about 2 mm in diameter.

Other Persea plants

Avocado · Tamala borbonia · Persea brenesii · Persea bullata · Wild Avocado · Persea campii · Persea conferta · Persea glabra · Madeira Mahogany · Persea julianae · Persea liebmannii · Persea lingue

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Persea brevipetiolata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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