Uvularia nitida

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Interesting Facts

Description

Genus Uvularia

Herbs, caulescent , glabrous or pubescent , from short or elongate rhizomes bearing several fibrous or thickened roots . Stems simple or 1-branched, excluding flower-bearing branches, strongly angled or rounded , with sheathing , papery bracts proximally. Leaves alternate, sessile or perfoliate; blade oblong-linear to oblong-ovate, membranaceous to leathery. Inflorescences 1 per branch , terminal but appearing axillary ; peduncles pendent. Flowers: perianth narrowly campanulate ; tepals promptly deciduous, imbricate, distinct , linear to narrowly oblong , apex obtuse or acute, nectariferous ; stamens distinct to weakly connate at perianth base; filaments dimorphic , glabrous; anthers linear-oblong, extrorse ; connectives present; ovary superior, 3-locular, sessile or stipitate , rounded to sharply triangular; style 1, 3-lobed; stigmas 3, lobed , outwardly arching at maturity. Fruits capsular , greenish to yellowish brown, sessile or stipitate, leathery or submembranaceous, tardily dehiscent , dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds 1-3 per locule, brownish red, globose to ovoid ; arils various. x = 6, 7.

Species 5: e North America.

Uvularia, a genus of attractive, spring-blooming plants , has been divided into sect. Oakesiella (Small) Wilbur with sessile leaves and sect. Uvularia with perfoliate leaves. Differences in other morphological (R. L. Wilbur 1963) and cytological (F. H. Utech 1978d) characters support recognition of these infrageneric groups.

D. K . Wijesinghe and D. F. Whigham (1997, 2001) compared the different, below-ground, vegetative morphologies of three Uvularia species and their relationship to their differing clonal populations and dynamics.[1]

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Uvularia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

U. caroliniana (Mountain Bellwort) · U. floridana (Florida Bellwort) · U. grandiflora (Large Bellwort) · U. perfoliata (Dwarf Merrybells) · U. puberula (Mountain Bellwort) · U. rosea (Rose Mandarin) · U. sessilifolia (Bellworts)

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Further Reading

• An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions: from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian / by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Hon. Addison Brown. New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1913. url p. 519.
• Annotated list of the ferns and flowering plants of New York state, by Homer D. House. Albany, The University of the state of New York, 1924. url p. 748.
• Annual report of the New Jersey State Museum. Trenton, N.J.: MacCrellish & Quigley, url p. 337, p. 343, p. 51, p. 77.
• Bartonia;proceedings of the Philadelphia botanical club. .. 1 - 10 1908 - 19 Philadelphia, Philadelphia Botanical Club, Academy of Natural Sciences. url p. 20, p. 37.
• Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 51 1924 New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1870-1996 url p. 512.
• Flora of the vicinity of New York; a contribution to plant geography. [New York]1915 url p. 231.
• Muhlenbergia. Chico, Calif. [etc] url p. 148, p. 83.
• The plants of Southern New Jersey with especial reference to the flora of the pine barrens and the geographic distribution of the species. Trenton, N. J., 1911. url , , , .
• The plants of Southern New Jersey; with especial reference to the flora of the Pine Barrens and the geographic distribution of the species. Trenton, 1911. url p. 337.
• The plants of southern New Jersey; with especial reference to the flora of the pine barrens and the geographic distribution of the species. Trenton, 1911. url p. 337, p. 343.
• Torreya. Burlington, Vt., Torrey Botanical Club, 1901-1945. url p. 13, p. 14, p. 18, p. 20, p. 22, p. 23, p. 283.
• Anderson, E. and T. W. Whitaker. 1934. Speciation in Uvularia. J. Arnold Arbor. 15: 28-42. Dietz, R. A. 1952. Variation in the perfoliate uvularias. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 39: 219-247.
• Hayashi, K. et al. 1998. Molecular systematics of the genus Uvularia and selected Liliales based upon matK and rbcL gene sequence data. Pl. Spec. Biol. 13: 129-146.
• Kawano, S. and H. H. Iltis. 1964. Cytotaxonomic and geographic notes on Uvularia (Liliaceae). Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 91: 13-23.
• Soper, J. H. 1952. Phytogeographic studies in Ontario I. The genus Uvularia in southern Ontario. Rhodora 54: 58-67.
• Wijesinghe, D. K. and D. F. Whigham. 2001. Nutrient foraging in woodland herbs: A comparison of three species of Uvularia (Liliaceae) with contrasting belowground morphologies. Amer. J. Bot. 88: 1071-1079.
• Wilbur, R. L. 1963. A revision of the North American genus Uvularia (Liliaceae). Rhodora 65: 158-188.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 13, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2789482
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4033303

Footnotes

1. Frederick H. Utech & Shoichi Kawano "Uvularia". in Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 51, 57, 147. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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