Pyrus cordataDesv.

WFO wfo-0000984162 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Pyrus cordata, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. a Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-25 / obs. 117760143
Pyrus cordata, photographed by José Luis Camaño
fig. b José Luis Camaño, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152777460
Pyrus cordata, photographed by José Luis Camaño
fig. c José Luis Camaño, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152078180
Pyrus cordata, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. d Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117760610
Pyrus cordata, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. e Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152881947
Pyrus cordata, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. f Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120626564
Pyrus cordata, photographed by Ivo Rosa
fig. g Ivo Rosa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 41062484
Pyrus cordata, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. h Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71466211

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Pyrus cordata is native: Algeria, Morocco, France, Portugal, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoFrancePortugalSpain
Native distribution of Pyrus cordata, 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
France FRA EUROPE
Portugal POR
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR

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 19 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.

  • Malus longipes Wenz.
  • Pyrus communis f. briggsii Syme
  • Pyrus communis f. cordata (Desv.) C.K.Schneid.
  • Pyrus communis f. microcarpa (Cout.) C.Vicioso
  • Pyrus communis subsp. cordata (Desv.) P.Fourn.
  • Pyrus communis subsp. gharbiana (Trab.) Maire
  • Pyrus communis subsp. longipes (Wenz.) Maire
  • Pyrus communis var. briggsii Syme
  • Pyrus communis var. cordata (Desv.) Mérat
  • Pyrus communis var. microcarpa Cout.
  • Pyrus communis var. parvifolia Gand.
  • Pyrus cordata subsp. briggsii (Syme) Coombe & P.D.Sell
  • Pyrus cossonii Rehder
  • Pyrus decaisneana Terpó
  • Pyrus decaisneana var. rapaiesiana Terpó
  • Pyrus gharbiana Trab.
  • Pyrus longipes Coss. & Durieu
  • Pyrus macropoda Rehder
  • Pyrus pyraster var. cordata (Desv.) Gillot

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.