Mespilus germanica L.

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:

• (2020). https://www.phytologia.org/uploads/2/3/4/2/23422706/102_3_177-199ufimov_and_dickinsoncratageus9-2-20.pdf. epublication. [Cited as Crataegus germanica.]

This name was accepted following an alternative taxonomy by these authorities:

• Browicz, K. & al. (1969). Rosaceae I. Flora Iranica 66: 1-217. Naturhistorisches Museums Wien. [Cited as Mespilus germanica.]
• Davis, P.H. (ed.) (1972). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 4: 1-657. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. [Cited as Mespilus germanica.]
• Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2014). Flora of North America North of Mexico 9: 1-713. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford. [Cited as Mespilus germanica.]
• Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i-viii, 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden. [Cited as Mespilus germanica.]
• Lambion, J., Delvosalle, L. & Duvigneaud, J. (2004). Nouvelle flore de la Belgique du G. D. de Luxembourg, du Nord de la France et des régions voisines, ed. 5: 1-1167. Edition du Patrimoine du Jardin botanique national de Belgique. [Cited as Mespilus germanica.]
• Nikitin, V.V. (ed.) (1949). Flora Turkmenii 4: 1-364. Turkmenskoe gosudarstvennoe izd., Ashkhabad. [Cited as Mespilus germanica.]
• Townsend, C.C. & Guest, E. (1966). Flora of Iraq 2: 1-184. Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform, Baghdad. [Cited as Mespilus germanica.]