Pyrus phaeocarpa Rehd.

This species is often used as stock to graft pear cultivars.

Trees to 5–8 m tall. Branchlets purplish red when young, purplish brown when old, terete, white tomentose when young, glabrous when old, sparsely pale lenticellate; buds narrowly ovoid, apex obtuse; scales tomentose at margin. Stipules caducous, linear-lanceolate, 1–2 mm, membranous, adaxially sparsely tomentose, margin sparsely glandular denticulate, apex acuminate; petiole 2–6 cm, sparsely pubescent or subglabrous; leaf blade elliptic-ovate or narrowly ovate, 6–10 × 3.5–5 cm, sparsely tomentose when young, soon glabrescent, base broadly cuneate, margin serrate, apex long acuminate. Raceme umbel-like, 5–8-flowered; peduncle tomentose when young, soon glabrescent; bracts caducous, linear-lanceolate, 8–11 mm, membranous, adaxially villous, margin entire, apex acuminate. Pedicel 2–2.5 cm, subglabrous. Flowers ca. 3 cm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially white tomentose. Sepals triangular-lanceolate, 2–3 mm, adaxially tomentose, margin entire, apex acuminate. Petals white, ovate, 1–1.5 cm, base shortly clawed, apex rounded. Stamens 20, ca. 1/2 as long as petals. Ovary (2- or)3- or 4-loculed, with 2 ovules per locule; styles (2 or)3 or 4, nearly as long as stamens, glabrous basally. Pome brown with pale dots, globose or ovoid, 2–2.5 cm in diam., 3- or 4-loculed; sepals caducous; fruiting pedicel 2–4 cm, glabrous. Fl. Apr, fr. Aug–Sep. 2n = 34*.

Gansu, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Xinjiang.

Slopes, mixed hillside forests of the Loess Plateau; 100--1200 m.

Pyrus phaeocarpa, the dusky pear or orange pear, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to the Loess Plateau of northern China. A wide tree reaching at most 7–8 m (23–26 ft) in height, it is hardy to USDA zone 5, or perhaps even zone 4. Its small yellow to brown fruit are edible, and its Autumn foliage is bright orange to orange-red, giving it good potential as an ornamental. Its chloroplast genome shows that it is closely related to Pyrus pashia, the wild Himalayan pear, and it is suspected to be a hybrid of P. betulifolia, the birchleaf pear, P. pyrifolia, the apple pear, and P. ussuriensis, the Manchurian pear.

Pyrus phaeocarpa là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa hồng. Loài này được Rehder miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1915.

褐梨（学名：Pyrus phaeocarpa）为蔷薇科梨属下的一个种。