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