Disporum

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Liliales

Familia: Colchicaceae
Tribus: Uvularieae

Genus: Disporum
Species: D. acuminatissimum – D. acuminatum – D. bodinieri – D. calcaratum – D. cantoniense – D. hainanense – D. jinfoshanense – D. kawakamii – D. leucanthum – D. longistylum – D. lutescens – D. megalanthum – D. nantouense – D. sessile – D. shimadae – D. smilacinum – D. tonkinense – D. trabeculatum – D. uniflorum – D. viridescens

Nothospecies: D. × hishiyamanum
Name

Disporum Salisb., 1812

Type species: D. pullum Salisb.; nom. illeg. (= D. cantoniense
)
Synonyms

Heterotypic
Drapiezia Blume, Enum. Pl. Javae 8. 1827.
Lethea Noronha, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 5(4): 3. 1790, nom. inval.

References
Primary references

Salisbury, R.A. (1812) Transactions, of the Horticultural Society of London 1: 331.

Additional references

Farr, E. R. & Zijlstra, G. eds. (1996-) Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). 2009 Dec 23 [1].

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Disporum in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 October 23. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2019. Disporum. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 October 23. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Disporum. Published online. Accessed: October 23 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Disporum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 October 23.

Vernacular names
日本語: チゴユリ属

Disporum (commonly known as fairy bells) is a genus of about 20 species of perennial flowering plants, found in Asia from northern India to Japan, south to Indonesia and north into the Russian Far East.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Disporum pullum, from China, was first named by Salisbury in 1812,[a] but subsequent authors places it in other genera such as Streptopus and Uvularia, till Don published the first valid description in 1825.[3]

In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Colchicaceae.[1] The genus previously included five species in North America, but these have been separated as the genus Prosartes D.Don and moved to the family Liliaceae in accordance to differences in karyology and chemistry as well as results from molecular systematic investigations.[4] The type species is Disporum pullum Salisb., which is a synonym of Disporum cantoniense.

Species[1]

Disporum acuminatissimum W.L.Sha - Guangxi
Disporum acuminatum C.H.Wright - Myanmar
Disporum bodinieri (H.Lév. & Vaniot) F.T.Wang & Tang - Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan
Disporum calcaratum D.Don - Yunnan, Himalayas, N Indochina
Disporum cantoniense (Lour.) Merr. - S China, S + SE Asia
Disporum hainanense Merr. - Guangdong, Hainan
Disporum jinfoshanense X.Z.Li, D.M.Zhang & D.Y.Hong - Chongqing
Disporum kawakamii Hayata - Taiwan
Disporum leucanthum H.Hara - S China, E Himalayas
Disporum longistylum (Chinese fairy bells) (H.Lév. & Vaniot) H.Hara - C + SW China
Disporum lutescens Koidz. - Japan
Disporum megalanthum F.T.Wang & Tang - C China
Disporum nantouense S.S.Ying - Taiwan
Disporum sessile (Japanese fairy bells) (Thunb.) D.Don - Japan, Korea, Kuril Is, Sakhalin
Disporum shimadae Hayata - Taiwan
Disporum smilacinum A.Gray - Japan, Korea, Kuril Is, Sakhalin, Shandong
Disporum tonkinense Koyama - N Vietnam
Disporum trabeculatum Gagnep. - S China, Vietnam
Disporum uniflorum Baker ex S.Moore - China, Korea
Disporum viridescens (Maxim.) Nakai - China, Japan, Korea, Russian Far East

Excluded species in North America[1]

Disporum hookeri (Torr.) G.Nicholson – now Prosartes hookeri Torr. - Hooker's fairy bells
Disporum lanuginosum (Michx.) G.Nicholson – now Prosartes lanuginosa (Michx.) D.Don - yellow mandarin
Disporum maculatum (Buckley) Britton – now Prosartes maculata (Buckley) A.Gray - spotted or nodding mandarin
Disporum smithii (Hook.) Piper – now Prosartes smithii (Hook.) Utech, Shinwari & Kawano - Smith's fairy bells
Disporum trachycarpum (S.Watson) Benth. & Hook.f. – now Prosartes trachycarpa S.Watson - rough-fruited fairy bells

Notes

Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 331 (1812)

References

WCLSPF 2020.
Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 154 万寿竹属 wan shou zhu shu Disporum Salisbury ex D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 50. 1825.
Hara 1988.
Shinwari, Z.K.; Terauchi, R.; Utech, F.H. & Kawano, S. (1994), "Recognition of the New World Disporum Section Prosartes as Prosartes (Liliaceae) Based on the Sequence Data of the rbcL Gene", Taxon, 43 (3): 353–366, doi:10.2307/1222713, JSTOR 1222713