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Taxon:  Pyrus boissieriana Buhse



Summary
Genus:
Pyrus
Section:
Pyrus
Family:
Rosaceae
Subfamily:
Amygdaloideae
Tribe:
Maleae
Subtribe:
Malinae
Nomen number:
30459
Place of publication:
Nouv. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 12:87. 1860
Verified:
07/07/2011 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Reference(s)
  1. Aldasoro, J. J. et al. 1996. The genus Pyrus L. (Rosaceae) in south-west Europe and North Africa. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 121:155. Note: = Pyrus cordata Desv.
  2. Asanidze, Z. et al. 2011. Comparative morphometric study and relationships between the Caucasian species of wild pear (Pyrus spp.) and local cultivars in Georgia. Flora 206:974-986. Note: mentions
  3. Browicz, K. 1973. Distribution of woody Rosaceae in western Asia: XII. Miscellaneous notes. Arbor. Kórnickie 18:29.
  4. Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR) Cambridge University Press.
  5. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
  6. Hancock, J. F. & G. A. Lobos. 2008. Pears. Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics 10:299-335. Note: = Pyrus communis
  7. Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
  8. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934-1964. Flora SSSR.
  9. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  10. Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963-. Flora iranica.
  11. Seemüller, E. et al. 1998. Pear decline resistance in Pyrus communis rootstocks and progenies of wild and ornamental Pyrus taxa. Acta Hort. 472:681-691.
  12. 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. 127:262-270. Note: this study did not mention Pyrus boisseriana, but it showed that "species and cultivars native to east Asia had the lowest affinity to the cultivars of P. communis"
  13. Wang, H. et al. 2018. Transcriptome sequencing analysis of two different genotypes if Asian pear reveals potential drought stress genes. Tree Genet. Genomes 14:40. Note: mentions as drought resistant
  14. Westwood, M. N. 1999. pers. comm. via e-mail from K. Hummer on 12 Oct Note: a complex hybrid
  15. Zamani, A. & F. Attar. 2010. Pyrus longipedicellata sp. nov. (Rosaceae) from central Alborz, Iran. Nordic J. Bot. 28:484-486. Note: compares Pyrus boisseriana with the new taxon
  16. Zamani, A. et al. 2012. A synopsis of the genus Pyrus (Rosaceae) in Iran. Nordic J. Bot. 30:310-322.
Common names
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusAzerbaijan s.e.
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaTurkmenistan Turkmenistan Mts.
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIran n.
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • WESTERN ASIA: Iran (n.)
  • CAUCASUS: Azerbaijan (s.e.)
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Turkmenistan (Turkmenistan Mts.)
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=30459. Accessed 20 May 2025.