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Taxon: Pyrus communis L.

Genus: Pyrus section: Pyrus
Family: Rosaceae subfamily: Spiraeoideae tribe: Pyreae subtribe: Pyrinae.
Nomen number: 30474
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:479, 2:1200. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: probably of hybrid origin
Name verified on: 13-Apr-1988 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 18-Dec-2008
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Corvallis (COR).
Accessions: 1038 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • only available ) NPGS core subset accessions for the crop ‘PEAR’ ) or .
  • Check AABGA/NAPCC contact person for genus for possible non-NPGS germplasm.


See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • pear   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • wild pear   (Source: Zander ed17 [as P. pyraster]) – English   [Pyrus communis subsp. pyraster]
  • xi yang li   (Source: F ChinaEng [as P. communis var. sativa]) – Transcribed Chinese
  • poirier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • poirier sauvage   (Source: Zander ed17 [as P. pyraster]) – French   [Pyrus communis subsp. pyraster]
  • Birnbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • Birne   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
  • Birnenbaum   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
  • Wild-Birne   (Source: Zander ed17 [as P. pyraster]) – German   [Pyrus communis subsp. pyraster]
  • Wilder-Birnbaum   (Source: Zander ed17 [as P. pyraster]) – German   [Pyrus communis subsp. pyraster]
  • pera   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  • pero   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  • seiyo-nashi   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  • pereira   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • pera   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Spanish
  • peral   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated

      Other:
  • probable origin Eurasia

References:

  • Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. (Mansf Ency)
  • Kimura, T. et al. 2002. Identification of Asian pear varieties by SSR analysis. Breed. Sci. 52:115–121.
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. (F TamilC)
  • Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. (F Cyprus)
  • Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
  • Pan, Z. et al. 2002. Genetic diversity of cultivated resources of pear in North China. Acta Hort. 587:187–194.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
  • Teng, Y.-W. et al. 2001. Genetic relationships of pear cultivars in Xinjiang, China, as measured by RAPD markers. J. Hort. Sci. Biotechnol. 76:771–779.
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
  • Tuz, A. S. 1972. K voprosu klassifikatsii roda Pyrus L. (Up-to-date systematics of the genus Pyrus L.). Trudy Prikl. Bot. 46:82.
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng) [= P. communis var. sativa].
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Pyrus communis L.:

  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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