title: Pera (plant)
text: # Pera (plant)
  
  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. It first described as a genus in 1784.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Pera androgyna - Distrito Federal in Brazil
  * Pera anisotricha - Brazil
  * Pera aperta - Panama
  * Pera arborea Central America, Colombia, Venezuela
  * Pera barbellata - S Mexico, N Central America
  * Pera benensis - Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, NW Brazil
  * Pera bicolor - NW Brazil, Venezuela, 3 Guianas
  * Pera bumeliifolia - Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola
  * Pera citriodora - S Venezuela, N Brazil
  * Pera coccinea - Pará, Mato Grosso
  * Pera colombiana - Colombia
  * Pera decipiens - N South America
  * Pera distichophylla - N South America
  * Pera eiteniorum - Brazil
  * Pera ekmanii - Cuba
  * Pera elliptica - Bolivia
  * Pera furfuracea - Bahia
  * Pera glabrata - Trinidad, tropical S America
  * Pera glomerata - Tortuga Island in Haiti
  * Pera heteranthera - Brazil
  * Pera longipes - Cuba
  * Pera manausensis - Amazonas in Brazil
  * Pera membranacea - Pará, Maranhão
  * Pera microcarpa - Cuba
  * Pera oppositifolia - Cuba
  * Pera orientensis - Cuba
  * Pera ovalifolia - Cuba
  * Pera pallidifolia - Cuba
  * Pera polylepis - Cuba
  * Pera pulchrifolia - Amazonas in Brazil
  * Pera rubra - Rio de Janeiro
  * Pera tomentosa - S Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
  
  moved to Chaetocarpus
  
  