Prunus sect. Prunus
Section of plants
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Prunus sect. Prunus is a section of Prunus subg. Prunus. It contains species of Eurasian plum.[1]
| Prunus sect. Prunus | |
|---|---|
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| Prunus salicina | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Prunus |
| Subgenus: | Prunus subg. Prunus |
| Section: | Prunus sect. Prunus |
| Type species | |
| Prunus domestica L. | |
| Species | |
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See text. | |
Species
Species in this section includes:[2][3]
- Prunus bokhariensis[4]
- Prunus cerasifera – cherry plum
- Prunus cocomilia – Italian plum, cuckoo's apple
- Prunus consociiflora[4][5] – Hubei plum
- Prunus darvasica – Darwaz plum
- Prunus divaricata[2] – wild cherry plum
- Prunus domestica – European plum
- Prunus ramburii – sloe of Sierra Nevada (Spanish: endrino de Sierra Nevada)
- Prunus salicina – Chinese plum, Japanese plum
- Prunus simonii – apricot plum
- Prunus sogdiana[2] – Sogdian plum
- Prunus spinosa – sloe
- Prunus tadzhikistanica – Tajik plum
- Prunus ursina[2] – bear's plum
- Prunus ussuriensis[2] – Manchurian plum
- Prunus vachuschtii – alucha
Hybrid species (some of them are hybrids with species of other sections):
- Prunus × blireiana – double-flowering plum (P. cerasifera × P. mume)
- Prunus × cistena – purple-leaf sand cherry (P. cerasifera × P. pumila）
- Prunus × ferganica – Fergana plum (P. divaricata × P. ulmifolia)
- Prunus × foveata – pitted-stone plum
- Prunus × fruticans (P. spinosa × P. insititia)
- Prunus × macedonica – Macedonian plum (P. cerasifera × P. cocomilia)
- Prunus × rossica – Russian plum (P. cerasifera × P. salicina)
- Prunus × simmleri[6] (P. cerasifera × P. spinosa)
The taxonomic position of P. brigantina is disputed. It is grouped with species of Prunus sect. Prunus according to chloroplast DNA sequences,[2] but more closely related to species of Prunus sect. Armeniaca according to nuclear DNA sequences.[7]