Aria graeca(Lodd. ex Spach) M.Roem.

WFO wfo-0000990624 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Aria graeca, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. a Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-11-18 / obs. 105029521
Aria graeca, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. b Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100270091
Aria graeca, photographed by abogomazova
fig. c abogomazova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100547175
Aria graeca, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. d Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28399127
Aria graeca, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. e Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28405164
Aria graeca, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. f Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28404948
Aria graeca, photographed by Nasser Halaweh
fig. g Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18010446
Aria graeca, photographed by Алексей Ябс
fig. h Алексей Ябс, CC0 1.0 / obs. 96066310

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Aria graeca is native: Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sicilia TürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSicilia
Native distribution of Aria graeca, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
Türkiye TUR ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 29 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aria migarica (Zinserl.) Mezhenskyj
  • Aria nivea var. cretica (Lindl.) M.Roem.
  • Aria nivea var. graeca (Lodd. ex Spach) Formánek
  • Crataegus graeca Lodd. ex Spach
  • Hahnia aria var. graeca (Lodd. ex Spach) Dippel
  • Pyrus aria var. cretica Lindl.
  • Pyrus aria var. graeca (Lodd. ex Spach) Steud.
  • Pyrus graeca Lodd.
  • Pyrus graeca (Lodd. ex Spach) Loudon
  • Pyrus hellas M.F.Fay & Christenh.
  • Pyrus meridionalis Guss.
  • Pyrus meridionalis prol. cretica (Lindl.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Pyrus migarica (Zinserl.) M.F.Fay & Christenh.
  • Pyrus porrigens (Hedl.) Druce
  • Sorbus aria subsp. cretica (Lindl.) Holmboe
  • Sorbus aria subsp. graeca (Lodd. ex Spach) Nyman
  • Sorbus aria var. cretica (Lindl.) Hayek
  • Sorbus aria var. graeca (Lodd. ex Spach) Griseb.
  • Sorbus cretica (Lindl.) Fritsch & Rech.
  • Sorbus cretica f. cuneifolia (Zinserl.) Kárpáti
  • Sorbus cretica var. typica Soó
  • Sorbus graeca (Spach) Kotschy
  • Sorbus graeca (Lodd. ex Spach) S.Schauer
  • Sorbus graeca f. cuneifolia Kárpáti

and 5 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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