Prosartes trachycarpa |
Prosartes |
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rough-fruit fairy-bells, rough-fruit mandarin, Sierra fairy-bells, wart-berry fairy bells, wartberry |
fairy-bell, fairybells |
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Habit | Plants 3–8 dm, crisp-pubescent, glabrate or glabrous with age. | Herbs, from slender, knotty rhizomes with fibrous roots, generally pubescent throughout. | ||||||||||||||||
Stems | sparingly branched. |
branched distally, with 2–5 papery bracts sheathing proximally. |
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Leaves | 4–12 × 2–5 cm; blade ovate to oblong-lanceolate, subcordate to oblique basally, abaxial surface and margins moderately pubescent, hairs scattered, flattened, apex acute to short-acuminate, with 7–9 prominent veins. |
sessile or subsessile; blade broadly ovate to oblanceolate, veinlets forming loose reticulum. |
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Inflorescences | strictly terminal. |
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Flowers | 1–2(–3); perianth narrowly campanulate; tepals creamy to greenish white, narrowly oblanceolate, 8–15 mm; stamens mostly exserted; filaments filiform, 10–15 mm; anthers 3–4(–5) mm; ovary broadly ovoid to obovoid, becoming 3-lobed and obpyriform after anthesis, finely papillose, ovules 2–6 per locule, horizontal; style 0.9–1.2 cm, glabrous or pubescent; stigma unlobed or 3-lobed. |
1–4(–7) in a cluster, nodding, pedicellate; tepals deciduous, distinct, weakly gibbous proximally; stamens hypogynous, basally adnate to tepals; filaments filiform to basally dilated; anthers linear-oblong, extrorse; ovary superior, sessile, 3-locular, narrowly ellipsoid to obovoid, ovules 2–6 per locule, pendulous or horizontal; style included or exserted, filiform; stigma not lobed or weakly 3-lobed; pedicel slender. |
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Fruits | baccate, straw-colored to red, ± fleshy. |
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Berries | reddish orange to bright red, 6–12(–18)-seeded, depressed-globose, 12–18 mm, strongly papillose. |
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Seeds | 4–5 mm. |
light yellow to orangish brown, ellipsoid to oblong, smooth. x = 6, 8, 9, 11. |
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2n | = 22. |
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Prosartes trachycarpa |
Prosartes |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Rich, shady deciduous forests, aspen groves to open coniferous forests | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 300–2500 m (1000–8200 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; CO; ID; MI; MN; MT; ND; NE; NM; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; ON; SK
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North America |
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Discussion | The recently discovered populations of Prosartes trachycarpa in Isle Royale National Park, Michigan (E. J. Judziewicz et al. 1997), are noteworthy disjunctions for this otherwise western species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Species 5 (5 in the flora). The American species have long been treated as section Prosartes of the otherwise Asian genus Disporum (H. Hara 1988; Q. Jones 1951). However, cytological, morphological, and molecular evidence indicates a degree of difference that justifies generic status for this group (M. N. Tamura et al. 1992; Z. K. Shinwari et al. 1994; T. Fukuhara and Z. K. Shinwari 1994). Within Prosartes there are two disjunct, east-west pairs: P. lanuginosa and P. hookeri, and P. trachycarpa and P. maculata (F. H. Utech et al. 1995; C. E. Wood Jr. 1970). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 144. | FNA vol. 26, p. 142. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Prosartes | Liliaceae | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Disporum trachycarpum, Disporum trachycarpum var. subglabrum | Disporum section P. | ||||||||||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 344. (1871) | D. Don: Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1: 48. (1839) | ||||||||||||||||
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