Disporum viridescens

Disporum viridescens
Disporum viridescens
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
clade: Angiosperms
clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Colchicaceae
Genus: Disporum
Species: D. viridescens
Binomial name
Disporum viridescens
(Maximowicz) Nakai[1]
Synonyms

Uvularia viridescens Maximowicz
Disporum smilacinum A. Gray var. viridescens (Maximowicz) Maximowicz
Prosartes viridescens (Maximowicz) Regel[2]

Disporum viridescens is a species of flowering plant in the genus Disporum. Like other species in the genus, it grows from a rhizome. The plant is 30 to 80 cm tall, with a stem that may branch. The leaves are more-or-less ovate in shape with a very short petiole (stalk). One or two open flowers are borne at the ends of stems; they have greenish white tepals which are 1.5 to 2 cm long. Flowering is in late spring to early summer (May to June in the northern hemisphere). Black berries around 1 cm in diameter appear a few months later.[2]

Plants grow in woodland or on grassy slopes at altitudes up to 600 m in north China, eastern Russia, Japan and Korea.[2]

References

  1. ^ World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do, retrieved 2011-05-29 , search for "Disporum viridescens"
  2. ^ a b c Disporum viridescens in Flora of China, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027614, retrieved 2011-05-29 
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