- Family:
- Rosaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Pyrus L.
- Species:
- Pyrus communis L.
Pyrus communis subsp. communis

Native to:
Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Krym, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Alabama, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Connecticut, Delaware, Denmark, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Florida, Free State, Georgia, Great Britain, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Iowa, Ireland, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Korea, Kriti, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, Portugal, Rhode I., South Australia, South Carolina, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Tennessee, Texas, Turkmenistan, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Virginia, Wisconsin
- Crataegus excelsa Salisb.
- Pyrenia pyrus Clairv.
- Pyrus achras Gaertn.
- Pyrus ambrosiaca Poit. & Turpin
- Pyrus amphigenea Domin ex Dostalek
- Pyrus anglica Druce
- Pyrus anglica Poit. & Turpin
- Pyrus balansae Decne.
- Pyrus caucasica var. schuntukensis Tuz
- Pyrus communis subsp. australeuropaea Tuz
- Pyrus communis subsp. medioasiatica Tuz
- Pyrus communis subsp. orientaleuropaea Tuz
- Pyrus communis var. pompejana L.
- Pyrus communis var. pyraster L.
- Pyrus communis var. sativa DC.
- Pyrus communis var. sylvestris DC.
- Pyrus communis subsp. transcaucasica Tuz
- Pyrus communis var. volema L.
- Pyrus domestica (Borkh.) Medik.
- Pyrus karpatiana Terpó
- Pyrus magyarica Terpó
- Pyrus moschata Poit. & Turpin
- Pyrus papulata Poit. & Turpin
- Pyrus pyraster (L.) Burgsd.
- Pyrus pyraster var. achras (Gaertn.) Cinovskis
- Pyrus pyraster subsp. achras (Gaertn.) Stohr
- Pyrus pyraster var. relicta Dostálek
- Pyrus pyraster var. rossica (A.D.Danilov) Tuz
- Pyrus pyraster var. tomentosa (W.D.J.Koch) Dostálek
- Pyrus rossica A.D.Danilov
- Pyrus salviati Poit. & Turpin
Pyrus communis subsp. communis appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Chase, M.W. [41473], Hungary | Pyrus pyraster | K000696134 | No | ||
Chase, M.W. [41519] | Pyrus balansae | K000696150 | No |
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.
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