Pera (plant) explained

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.^{[1] [2]} It first described as a genus in 1784.^{[3] [4]}

Species^[1]

Species^[1] moved to Chaetocarpus

• P. echinocarpa - Chaetocarpus echinocarpus

External links

• Peraceae in Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 7, May 2006.

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=150125 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. 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.
3. Mutis, José Celestino Bruno. 1784. Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 5: 299
4. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40004256 Tropicos, genus Pera