Pyrus communis L.

Pyrus communis (binomen a Carolo Linnaeo anno 1753 statutum) est species arborum fructiferarum in Asia occidentali et Europa sponte crescens, cuius cultivarietates ex hybridis subspecierum duarum silvaticarum provenisse censentur, videlicet P. communis subsp. pyraster et subsp. caucasica. Fructus qui ab arboribus huius speciei provenit Latinitate communi pirum appellatur.

Bibliographia

Fontes antiquiores

• 1561 : Conradus Gesnerus, "De hortis Germaniae" in Valerius Cordus, Annotationes in Dioscoridis ... [etc.] f. 273a
• 1597 : John Gerard, The Herball, or generall historie of plantes. Londinii: John Norton pp. 1267-1272 "the peare tree"
• 1629 : Ioannes Parkinsonus, Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris pp. 590-594
• 1753 : Carolus Linnaeus, Species plantarum (Holmiae: impensis L. Salvii, 1753) vol. 1 p. 479 (Latine)

Eruditio recentior

• Zezva Asanidze, Maia Akhalkatsi, Adam D. Henk, Christopher M. Richards, Gayle M. Volk, "Genetic relationships between wild progenitor pear (Pyrus L.) species and local cultivars native to Georgia, South Caucasus" in Flora vol. 209 (2014) pp. 504-512
• David Chagné et al., "The Draft Genome Sequence of European Pear (Pyrus communis L. ‘Bartlett’)" in PLOS One (3 Aprilis 2014)
• Andrew Dalby, Food in the Ancient World from A to Z (Londinii, 2003. ISBN 0415232597) p. 253-254
• Gayle M. Volk et al., "Diversity of wild Pyrus communis based on microsatellite analyses" in Journal of the American Society of Horticultural Sciences vol. 131 (2006) pp. 408-417
• Xiaoyan Zheng, Danying Cai, Daniel Potter, Yuanwen Teng, "Phylogeny and evolutionary histories of Pyrus L. revealed by phylogenetic trees and networks based on data from multiple DNA sequences" in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution vol. 80 (2014)
• Daniel Zohary, "Wild apples and wild pears" in Bocconea vol. 7 (1997) pp. 409-416
• Daniel Zohary, Maria Hopf, Domestication of Plants in the Old World: the origin and spread of cultivated plants in West Asia, Europe and the Nile Valley. 3a ed. (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 9780198503569) pp. 175-178

Nexus externi

Vide "Pyrus communis" apud Vicispecies. Situs scientifici: Tropicos • Tela Botanica • GRIN • ITIS • Plant List • NCBI • Biodiversity • Encyclopedia of Life • Plant Name Index • IUCN Red List • Plantes d'Afrique • USDA Plants Database

• Jules Janick, "The Pear in History, Literature, Popular Culture, and Art" apud universitatem Purdue