Machilus wangchiana

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

Machilus wangchiana
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]