Machilus wangchiana is a tree of the Lauraceae family and is an avocado species endemic to China.[1]

Machilus wangchiana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Machilus
Species:
M. wangchiana
Binomial name
Machilus wangchiana

It was described in 1953 by the botanist Woon Young Chun in 1953 and was published in Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica.[1] It has two synonyms; Persea wangchiana and Persea kadooriei which was described by the botanist André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans in 1981 as published in Journal of South African Botany.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Machilus wangchiana". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  2. ^ Kostermans, A.J.G.H. (January 1981). "An Interesting New Species of Persea...etc". Journal of South African Botany. 47 (1): 107–129.
  3. ^ "Persea kadooriei Kosterm". World Flora Online. Retrieved 18 September 2022.