Uvularia puberula

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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]

Physical Description

Habitat

Moist to dry, open woods ; 0--900 m [2].

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,092 meters (0 to 3,583 feet).[3]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Oakesia puberula (Michaux) S. Watson • Oakesiella puberula (Michx.) Small • Uvularia carolina (J. F. Gmel.) Wilbur • Uvularia nitida (Britt.) Mackenzie • Uvularia puberula var. nitida (Britt.) Fern. • Uvularia pudica (Walter) Fernald • Uvularia pudica sensu Fern. • Uvularia pudica var. nitida (Britt.) Fern.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 09-Jul-2004

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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Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
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• "Uvularia puberula". in Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 148. Published by Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
• World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Release date: November 27, 2009

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• USDA PLANTS: USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2662721
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-290907
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:543412-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 43111
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 543412-1
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: UVPU3
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 52030

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]
2. "Uvularia puberula". in Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 148. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Mean = 371.410 meters (1,218.537 feet), Standard Deviation = 309.750 based on 147 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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