Pyrus L.
Genus composed of about 69 species, of which 3 are indigenous in North Africa, in the subhumid and humid forests of the Mediterranean area.
Aldasoro, J.J., Aedo, G. & Muñoz Garmendia, F. 1996. The genus Pyrus L. in South-West Europe and North Africa. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 121: 143-158.
Key to species
1 Fruit with very thin peduncle, flexible Pyrus cordata
1 Fruit with strong peduncle, rigid 2
2 Leaves oblong or lanceolate. Petals with hirsute base. In forests of northern Tunisia Pyrus syriaca
2 Leaves suborbicular, oval or broadly oblong. Petals glabrous. In forests of NW Morocco Pyrus bourgaeana
Updated by: A.V. Pérez Latorre & J. Charco.