Pyrus xerophila
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Pyrus xerophila | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Rosales |
Family: | Rosaceae |
Genus: | Pyrus |
Species: | P. xerophila
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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
[edit]- ^ Acta Phytotax. Sin. 8: 233 (1963)
- ^ "Pyrus xerophila T.T.Yu". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.