Prosartes trachycarpa

Roughfruit fairybells

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Prosartes
Species:
P. trachycarpa
Binomial name
Prosartes trachycarpa
Synonyms[1]
  • Disporum trachycarpum (S.Watson) Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Lethea trachycarpa (S.Watson) Farw.
  • Disporum canadense Shafer
  • Disporum majus (Hook.) Britton
  • Disporum trachycarpum var. subglabrum Kelso
  • Uvularia lanuginosa var. major Hook.

Prosartes trachycarpa, the roughfruit fairybells,[2] rough-fruited fairybells or rough-fruited mandarin, is a North American species of plants in the lily family.[3][4] The species is widespread, known from British Columbia to Ontario and south to Arizona and New Mexico.[4][1] One isolated population was reported from Isle Royale in Lake Superior.[4]

  1. ^ a b POWO (2023). "Prosartes trachycarpa S.Watson". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  2. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "​Prosartes trachycarpa​". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  3. ^ Utech, F. H., Z. K. Shinwari, and S. Kawano. 1995. Biosystematic studies in Disporum (Liliaceae-Asparagoideae-Polygonateae). VI. Recognition of the North American section Prosartes as an autonomous genus. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series Biology 16: 1–41.
  4. ^ a b c Utech, Frederick H. (5 November 2020). "Prosartes trachycarpa - FNA". Flora of North America. Retrieved 27 May 2023.