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Genus: Pyrus section: Pyrus
Family: Rosaceae subfamily: Amygdaloideae tribe: Maleae subtribe: Malinae.
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: 07-Jul-2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 07-Jul-2011
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Corvallis (COR).
Accessions:
987 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- 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
- seiyō-nashi (Source: F JapanOhwi
) – Japanese Rōmaji
- byeongbaenamu (Source: Kulturpflanze
34:122) – Transcribed Korean
- pereira (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- pera (Source: Mansf Ency
) – Spanish
- peral (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- päron (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
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Native:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Turkey
Caucasus: Armenia
- EUROPE
Middle Europe: Austria; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Poland
East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Greece; Italy [c.s.]; Macedonia; Romania
Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain
Naturalized:
Cultivated:
Other:
- Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds.
Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Boutelje, J. B.
1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
- Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson.
1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning.
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
- Fischer, M.
2009. Pear breeding.
In: Jain, S. M. & P.M. Priyadarshan, eds., Breeding plantation tree crops: temperate species.
135–160.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
- 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.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
- Matthew, K. M.
1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
- Meikle, R. D.
1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
- Ohwi, J.
1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
- 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).
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wolko, L. et al.
2010. Genetic diversity of European pear cultivars (Pyrus communis L.) and wild pear (Pyrus pyraster (L>) Burgsd.) inferred from microsatellite markers analysis.
Genet. Resources Crop Evol.
57:801–806.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
[= P. communis var. sativa].
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources 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.
Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?30474 (21 May 2013)
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