Pyrus communis
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 : 
 1597 : 
 1629 : Ioannes Parkinsonus, Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris pp. 590-594
 1753 : 

 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)
 
 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
  pp. 175-178

Nexus externi 

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

Species plantarum
Taxa Linnaei
Taxa 1753
Pyrus
Fructus
Fruges Asiae occidentalis