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The genus Pyrus is in the family Rosaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pyrus

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pyrus armeniacifolia T.T. Yu	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus betulifolia Bunge	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus bretschneideri Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus calleryana Decne.	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus canadensis (L.) Farw.	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus carolinensis (Ashe) Ashe	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus caucasica Fed.	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus communis L.	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus decora (Sarg.) Hyland	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus dumosa (Greene) Fernald	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus elongata (Rehder) Ashe	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus × fallax (C.K. Schneid.) Fernald	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus groenlandica (C.K. Schneid.) K.R. Robertson	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus hopeiensis T.T. Yu	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus hybrida (L.) Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus × jackii (Rehder) Fernald	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus korshinskyi Litv.	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus kotschyana Boiss. ex Decne.	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus micromalus (Makino) L.H. Bailey	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus pashia Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus phaeocarpa Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus pseudopashia T.T. Yu	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus pyraster (L.) Du Roi	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus pyrifolia (Burm. f.) Nakai	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus redolens (Ashe) Ashe	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus serrulata Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus sinkiangensis T.T. Yu	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus suecica (L.) Röhl. ex Steud.	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus taiwanensis H. Iketani & H. Ohashi	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus theifera (Rehder) L.H. Bailey	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus trilocularis D.K. Zang & P.C. Huang	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus ussuriensis Maxim.	Accepted		TRO
Pyrus xerophila T.T. Yu	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 236 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pyrus. Of these 33 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 52 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pyrus. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 236 species names for the genus Pyrus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	33	14.0%
◕	Synonym	130	55.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	73	30.9%

All names

The status of the 288 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pyrus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	38	13.2%
◕	Synonym	167	58.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	83	28.8%

The confidence with which the status of the 236 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pyrus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	32	129	0	0	161	68.2%
	Low confidence	1	1	0	73	75	31.8%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Pyrus, are as follows: