Prunus sect. Prunus

Prunus sect. Prunus is a section of Prunus subg. Prunus. It contains species of Eurasian plum.^[1]

Prunus sect. Prunus
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
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]