Pyrus xerophila
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Pyrus
Species:
P. xerophila
Binomial name
Pyrus xerophila

Pyrus xerophila is a species of flowering plant in the genus Pyrus found in China.[2] It is a probable hybrid species resulting from crosses between Pyrus pashia (Himalayan pear), Pyrus ussuriensis (Manchurian pear), and the western domestic pear, brought together by travelers along the Silk Road.[3] It is used as rootstock for cultivated pears, and the fruit are collected and eaten by local people.[4]

References

  1. Acta Phytotax. Sin. 8: 233 (1963)
  2. "Pyrus xerophila T.T.Yu". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  3. Jiang, Shuang; Zheng, Xiaoyan; Yu, Peiyuan; Yue, Xiaoyan; Ahmed, Maqsood; Cai, Danying; Teng, Yuanwen (2016). "Primitive Genepools of Asian Pears and Their Complex Hybrid Origins Inferred from Fluorescent Sequence-Specific Amplification Polymorphism (SSAP) Markers Based on LTR Retrotransposons". PLOS ONE. 11 (2): e0149192. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1149192J. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0149192. PMC 4752223. PMID 26871452.
  4. Kang, Yongxiang; Łuczaj, Łukasz; Kang, Jin; Wang, Fu; Hou, Jiaojiao; Guo, Quanping (2014). "Wild food plants used by the Tibetans of Gongba Valley (Zhouqu county, Gansu, China)". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 10: 20. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-10-20. PMC 3933068. PMID 24502461. S2CID 15661862.


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