Editing Pear (section)

== Subdivision ==
The genus can be divided into two [[Subgenus|subgenera]]—''Pyrus'' and ''Pashia''. Subgenus ''Pyrus,'' the Occidental [[clade]], is distributed mainly in the western portion of Eurasia and North Africa, while subgenus ''Pashia'', the Oriental clade, is native to [[East Asia]]. The two subgenera come in contact in [[Xinjiang|Xingjiang]], China, and in fact ''[[Pyrus × sinkiangensis|P. sinkiangensis]]'' appears to have arisen from a hybridisation event between ''[[Pyrus communis|P. communis]]'' and either ''[[Pyrus pyrifolia|P. pyrifolia]]'' or ''[[Pyrus × bretschneideri|P. bretschneideri]],'' i.e. a hybridisation between a member of the Occidental clade and a member of the Oriental clade.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jin |first1=Ze-Tao |last2=Ma |first2=Dai-Kun |last3=Liu |first3=Guang-Ning |last4=Hodel |first4=Richard G.J. |last5=Jiang |first5=Yan |last6=Ge |first6=Bin-Jie |last7=Liao |first7=Shuai |last8=Duan |first8=Lei |last9=Ren |first9=Chen |last10=Xu |first10=Chao |last11=Wu |first11=Jun |last12=Liu |first12=Bin-Bin |date=2024 |title=Advancing Pyrus phylogeny: Deep genome skimming-based inference coupled with paralogy analysis yields a robust phylogenetic backbone and an updated infrageneric classification of the pear genus (Maleae, Rosaceae) |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/tax.13163 |journal=Taxon |language=en |volume=73 |issue=3 |pages=784–799 |doi=10.1002/tax.13163 |issn=1996-8175}}</ref> As of December 2024, [[Plants of the World Online]] accepts the following 74 species.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pyrus L. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30000967-2#children |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}</ref>[[File:Assortment of pears.jpg|thumb|(Left to right, top to bottom) Korean pear, Bosc pear, Forelle pear, red D'Anjou pear, Bartlett pear, green D'Anjou pear, Seckel pear, Comice pear]]
[[File:Pyrus pyrifolia.jpg|thumb|Many varieties, such as the [[Nashi pear]], are not "pear-shaped".]]

=== Species and selected hybrids ===
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;Subgenus ''Pyrus''
* ''[[Pyrus acutiserrata]]''
* ''[[Pyrus armeniacifolia]]''—Apricot-leaved pear
* ''[[Pyrus asiae-mediae]]''
* ''[[Pyrus austriaca]]''
* ''[[Pyrus × babadagensis]]''
* ''[[Pyrus × bardoensis]]''
* ''[[Pyrus boissieriana]]''
* ''[[Pyrus bourgaeana]]''—Iberian pear
* ''[[Pyrus browiczii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus cajon]]''
* ''[[Pyrus castribonensis]]''
* ''[[Pyrus chosrovica]]''
* ''[[Pyrus ciancioi]]''—Ciancio's pear
* ''[[Pyrus communis]]''—European pear
** ''[[Pyrus communis]]'' subsp. ''communis''—European pear (cultivars include [[d'Anjou|Beurre d'Anjou]], [[Williams pear|Bartlett]] and [[Bosc Pear|Beurre Bosc]])
** ''Pyrus communis'' subsp. ''caucasica'' ([[syn.]] ''Pyrus caucasica'')
** ''Pyrus communis'' subsp. ''pyraster'' (syn. ''[[Pyrus pyraster]]'')
* ''[[Pyrus complexa]]''
* ''[[Pyrus cordata]]''—Plymouth pear
* ''[[Pyrus cordifolia]]''
* ''[[Pyrus costata]]''
* ''[[Pyrus daralagezi]]''
* ''[[Pyrus demetrii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus elaeagrifolia]]''—Oleaster-leaved pear
* ''[[Pyrus elata]]''
* ''[[Pyrus eldarica]]''
* ''[[Pyrus fedorovii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus ferganensis]]''
* ''[[Pyrus georgica]]''
* ''[[Pyrus gergerana]]''—Gergeranian pear
* ''[[Pyrus glabra]]''
* ''[[Pyrus grossheimii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus hajastani]]''
* ''[[Pyrus hakkiarica]]''
* ''[[Pyrus hyrcana]]''
* ''[[Pyrus jacquemontiana]]''
* ''[[Pyrus × jordanovii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus ketzkhovelii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus mazanderanica]]''
* ''[[Pyrus medvedevii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus megrica]]''
* ''[[Pyrus × michauxii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus neoserrulata]]''
* ''[[Pyrus nivalis]]''—Snow pear
* ''[[Pyrus nutans]]''
* ''[[Pyrus oxyprion]]''
* ''[[Pyrus pedrottiana]]''
* ''[[Pyrus raddeana]]''
* ''[[Pyrus regelii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus sachokiana]]''
* ''[[Pyrus salicifolia]]''—Willow-leaved pear
* ''[[Pyrus sicanorum]]''
* ''[[Pyrus × sinkiangensis]]''—thought to be an interspecific hybrid between ''P. ''×''bretschneideri'' and ''Pyrus communis''
* ''[[Pyrus sogdiana]]''
* ''[[Pyrus sosnovskyi]]''
* ''[[Pyrus spinosa]]''—Almond-leaved pear
* ''[[Pyrus syriaca]]''—Syrian pear
* ''[[Pyrus tadshikistanica]]''
* ''[[Pyrus takhtadzhianii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus tamamschiannae]]''
* ''[[Pyrus terpoi]]''
* ''[[Pyrus theodorovii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus turcomanica]]''
* ''[[Pyrus tuskaulensis]]''
* ''[[Pyrus vallis-demonis]]''
* ''[[Pyrus × vavilovii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus voronovii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus vsevolodovii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus yaltirikii]]''
* ''[[Pyrus zangezura]]''
;Subgenus ''Pashia''
* ''[[Pyrus betulifolia]]''—Birchleaf pear
* ''[[Pyrus × bretschneideri]]''—Chinese white pear; also classified as a subspecies of ''Pyrus pyrifolia''
* ''[[Pyrus calleryana]]''—Callery pear
* ''[[Pyrus hopeiensis]]''
* ''[[Pyrus korshinskyi]]''
* ''[[Pyrus pashia]]''—Afghan pear
* ''[[Pyrus × phaeocarpa]]''
* ''[[Pyrus pseudopashia]]''
* ''[[Pyrus pyrifolia]]''—Nashi pear, ''Sha Li''; tree species native to China, Japan, and Korea, also known as the Asian pear
* ''[[Pyrus trilocularis]]''
* ''[[Pyrus ussuriensis]]''—Siberian pear (also known as the Ussurian pear, Harbin pear, or Manchurian pear)
* ''[[Pyrus xerophila]]''
;Not classified
* ''[[Pyrus alpinotaiwaniana]]''{{div col end}}