Machilus wangchiana
Avocado species endemic to Hong Kong, China
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Machilus wangchiana is a tree of the Lauraceae family and is an avocado species endemic to China.[1]
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| Machilus wangchiana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Laurales |
| Family: | Lauraceae |
| Genus: | Machilus |
| Species: | M. wangchiana |
| Binomial name | |
| Machilus wangchiana Chun | |
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]