Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 610 650 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Laurus persea Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 370. 1753 . "Habitat in America calida." RCN: 2917. Lectotype (van der Werff in Novon 12: 580. 2002): [icon] " Prunifera arbor, fructu maximo pyriformi viridi, pericarpio esculento butyraceo nucleum unicum maximum nullo ossiculo tectum, cingente " in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 2: 132, t. 222, f. 2. 1725. - Typotype : Herb. Sloane 7: 77 ( BM-SL ) . Current name: Persea americana Mill. ( Lauraceae ).