Prosartes

Prosartes trachycarpa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Liliales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Ordo: Liliales

Familia: Liliaceae
Subfamilia: Calochortoideae
Genus: Prosartes
Species: P. hookeri – P. lanuginosa – P. maculata – P. parvifolia – P. smithii – P. trachycarpa

Name

Prosartes D.Don, Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1: 48 (1839).

• Type species: Prosartes lanuginosa (Michx.) D.Don

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Lethea Noronha, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 5(4): 3 (1790), nom. nud.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Northern America Western Canada Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan. Eastern Canada Ontario. Northwestern U.S.A. Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming. North-Central U.S.A. Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota. Northeastern U.S.A. Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Southwestern U.S.A. Arizona, California, Utah. South-Central U.S.A. New Mexico. Southeastern U.S.A. Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Don, D. 1839. A monograph of Streptopus, with the description of a new genus now first separated from it. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1: 47–48. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Shinwari, Z.K., Terauchi, R., Utech, F.H., & Kawano, S. 1994. Recognition of the New World Disporum section Prosartes as Prosartes (Liliaceae) based on the sequence data of the rbcL gene. Taxon 43(3): 353–366. DOI: 10.2307/1222713 JSTOR Reference page. 

Links

• Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Prosartes in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2022 July 20.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Prosartes in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 July 20. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2022. Prosartes. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 July 20. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2022. Prosartes. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 19 July 2022.
• International Plant Names Index. 2022. Prosartes. Published online. Accessed: July 20 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Roughfruit fairybells, wartberry fairybell de=Elfenglöckchen

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