Persea barbujana

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Apollonias barbujana.jpg

|status = LC

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Beech, E. |author2=da Silva Menezes de Sequeira, M.P. |author3=Fernandes, F. |date=2017 |title=Apollonias barbujana |volume=2017 |page=e.T62567A81867959 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T62567A81867959.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

|genus = Persea

|species = barbujana

|authority = (Cav.) Mabb. & Nieto Fel.

|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Persea barbujana (Cav.) Mabb. & Nieto Fel. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77164254-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=21 May 2025}}

| synonyms = {{collapsible list|bullets=true

|title=Synonymy

|Apollonias barbujana {{small|(Cav.) A.Braun}}

|Apollonias canariensis {{small|(Willd.) Nees}}

|Apollonias canariensis var. {{small|Meisn.}}

|Laurus barbujana {{small|Cav. (1801)}} (basionym

|Laurus barbusana {{small|Lowe}}

|Laurus barbusano {{small|Hochst. ex Webb & Berthel.}}

|Laurus borbonia {{small|Meisn.}}

|Laurus canariensis {{small|Willd.}}

|Laurus carolinensis {{small|Meisn.}}

|Laurus foetens {{small|Brouss. ex Meisn.}}

|Laurus nitida {{small|Masson ex Meisn.}}

|Laurus reticulata {{small|Poir.}}

|Laurus tomentosa {{small|Meisn.}}

|Persea canariensis {{small|(Willd.) Spreng.}}

|Phoebe barbujana {{small|(Cav.) Webb & Berthel.}}

}}

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Persea barbujana, the Canary laurel or barbusano, is a species of tree in the laurel family, Lauraceae. It is endemic to the Macaronesian islands of Madeira (incl. Porto Santo) and the Canary Islands. It is often placed as the sole species in genus Apollonias. Molecular phylogenic analyses found that the species is nested within the genus Persea, which also includes the Macaronesian endemic Persea indica.{{Cite journal |last1=Li |first1=Lang |last2=Li |first2=Jie |last3=Rohwer |first3=Jens G. |last4=van der Werff |first4=Henk |last5=Wang |first5=Zhi-Hua |last6=Li |first6=Hsi-Wen |date=September 2011 |title=Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Persea group (Lauraceae) and its biogeographic implications on the evolution of tropical and subtropical Amphi-Pacific disjunctions |url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.3732/ajb.1100006 |journal=American Journal of Botany |language=en |volume=98 |issue=9 |pages=1520–1536 |doi=10.3732/ajb.1100006|pmid=21860056 }}

The La Gomera subspecies is distinct and endangered.{{Cite iucn|title=Apollonias barbujana subsp. ceballosi|author1=Bañares, A.|display-authors=etal|year=1998|page=e.T30321A9535286|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T30321A9535286.en|access-date=28 July 2024}}