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Taxon: Pyrus ×phaeocarpa Rehder

Genus: Pyrus section: Pashia
Family: Rosaceae subfamily: Spiraeoideae tribe: Pyreae subtribe: Pyrinae.
Nomen number: 30555
Place of publication: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 50:235.1915
Comment: a probable hybrid, P. betulifolia × P. ussuriensis?
Name verified on: 02-Dec-1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 18-Dec-2008
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Corvallis (COR).
Accessions: 2 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.


Common names:

  • he li   (Source: F ChinaEng [as P. phaeocarpa]) – Transcribed Chinese
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Economic importance:

  • Environmental: graft stock   (for pear cultivars fide F ChinaEng, as P. phaeocarpa)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China - Gansu, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Xinjiang

References:

  • Challice, J. S. & M. N. Westwood. 1973. Numerical taxonomic studies of the genus Pyrus using both chemical and botanical characters. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 67:122. [prob. hybrid, P. betulifolia × P. ussuriensis].
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China) [not as hybrid].
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16) [not as hybrid].
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Teng, Y.-W. et al. 2002. Genetic relationships of Pyrus species and cultivars native to East Asia revealed by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA markers. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 127:267. [supports involvement of P. betulifolia and P. ussuriensis in ancestry of this taxon].
  • Tuz, A. S. 1972. K voprosu klassifikatsii roda Pyrus L. (Up-to-date systematics of the genus Pyrus L.). Trudy Prikl. Bot. 46:76. [accepts, but not as hybrid].
  • Westwood, M. N. 1985. [pers. comm.].
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng) [not as hybrid].
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Check other databases for Pyrus ×phaeocarpa Rehder:

  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • 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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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?30555 (09 February 2010)

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