Pera (plant)
| Pera | |
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| Fruits of Pera glabrata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Peraceae |
| Genus: | Pera Mutis |
| Synonyms | |
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Pera is a genus of plants in the family Peraceae native to tropical America, from southern Mexico and the West Indies south as far as Paraguay. It first described as a genus in 1784.
- Species
- Pera androgyna - Distrito Federal in Brazil
- Pera anisotricha - Brazil
- Pera aperta - Panama
- Pera arborea Central America, Colombia, Venezuela
- Pera barbellata - S Mexico, N Central America
- Pera benensis - Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, NW Brazil
- Pera bicolor - NW Brazil, Venezuela, 3 Guianas
- Pera bumeliifolia - Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola
- Pera citriodora - S Venezuela, N Brazil
- Pera coccinea - Pará, Mato Grosso
- Pera colombiana - Colombia
- Pera decipiens - N South America
- Pera distichophylla - N South America
- Pera eiteniorum - Brazil
- Pera ekmanii - Cuba
- Pera elliptica - Bolivia
- Pera furfuracea - Bahia
- Pera glabrata - Trinidad, tropical S America
- Pera glomerata - Tortuga Island in Haiti
- Pera heteranthera - Brazil
- Pera longipes - Cuba
- Pera manausensis - Amazonas in Brazil
- Pera membranacea - Pará, Maranhão
- Pera microcarpa - Cuba
- Pera oppositifolia - Cuba
- Pera orientensis - Cuba
- Pera ovalifolia - Cuba
- Pera pallidifolia - Cuba
- Pera polylepis - Cuba
- Pera pulchrifolia - Amazonas in Brazil
- Pera rubra - Rio de Janeiro
- Pera tomentosa - S Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
- Species
moved to Chaetocarpus
- P. echinocarpa - Chaetocarpus echinocarpus