Pyrus communis subsp. pyraster (L.) Ehrh., 1780
🇬🇧 Aigrin, Poirier sauvage
🇫🇷 Wild Pear
Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Angiosperms
- Clade: Eudicots
- Clade: Superrosids
- Clade: Rosids
- Clade: Fabids
- Order: Rosales
- Family: Rosaceae
- Subfamily: Amygdaloideae
- Tribe: Pyreae
- Subtribe: Pyrinae
- Genus: Pyrus
- Species: Pyrus communis subsp. pyraster
Presence
Present.
Conservation status
- Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
- Red List (Global): LC Least Concern
Notes
Subspecies with small fruits (⌀ ≤ 35 mm) and thorny spurs.
Not accepted by POWO and treated as a synonym of P. communis subsp. communis L., 1753.
Photographs
Sources
Kell, S.P. (2011). Pyrus communis (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2011. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/173010/6957056
Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 996). Biotope.