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Disporum viridescens

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Disporum viridescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Colchicaceae
Genus: Disporum
Species:
D. viridescens
Binomial name
Disporum viridescens
(Maximowicz) Nakai[1]
Synonyms[2]

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

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 (12 to 31 in), 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 (0.59 to 0.79 in) long. Flowering is in late spring to early summer (May to June in the northern hemisphere). Black berries around 1 cm (0.39 in) in diameter appear a few months later.[2]

Plants grow in woodland or on grassy slopes at altitudes up to 600 m (2,000 ft) in northeastern China, eastern Russia, Japan, and Korea.[2]

References

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  1. ^ World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2011-05-29, search for "Disporum viridescens"
  2. ^ a b c Disporum viridescens in Flora of China, retrieved 2011-05-29