Flora of North America species comparison

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Prosartes maculata

nodding mandarin, yellow mandarin
Habit Plants 3–8 dm, glabrescent with age.
Stems

sparingly branched.
Leaves

4–15 × 2–4 cm;

blade ovate to lanceolate, rounded to subcordate basally, abaxial surface veins and margins pubescent, hairs scattered, flattened, apex sharply acuminate, with (3–)5 prominent veins.
Flowers

1–3(–4);

perianth broadly campanulate;

tepals creamy white spotted with purple, ovate-lanceolate, abruptly narrowly clawed basally, 15–25 mm, apex acuminate;

stamens exserted;

filaments filiform, 15–20 mm;

anthers 3–6 mm;

ovary obconic to obpyriform, becoming 3-lobed after anthesis, papillose with ascending, stellate glandular hairs, ovules 2–4 per locule, horizontal;

style 1.4–2.3 cm, glabrous;

stigma 3-lobed.
Berries

pale straw-colored, 3-lobed, 6–10-seeded, 10–15 mm, papillose with stellate hairs arising from papillae;

lobes subglobose.
Seeds

4 mm.
2n

= 12. 

Prosartes maculata
Phenology Flowering early–late spring.
Habitat Rich, moist, deciduous woods, slopes and ravines
Elevation 100–800 m (300–2600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; GA; KY; MI; NC; OH; TN; VA; WV
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Discussion

This rare old-forest obligate is readily distinguished by its purple-spotted, clawed tepals and its three-lobed, straw-colored, hairy-papillose fruit (R. G. Johnson 1968).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 144.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Prosartes
Sibling taxa
P. hookeri, P. lanuginosa, P. smithii, P. trachycarpa
Synonyms Streptopus maculatus, Disporum cahnae, Disporum maculatum, Disporum schaffneri
Name authority (Buckley) A. Gray: Amer. J. Sci. Arts 47: 201. (1844)
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