Prospero

Prospero autumnale

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asparagales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Asparagaceae
Subfamilia: Scilloideae
Tribus: Hyacintheae
Subtribus: Hyacinthinae
Genus: Prospero
Species: P. autumnale – P. battagliae – P. corsicum – P. cudidaghense – P. depressum – P. elisae – P. fallax – P. hanburyi – P. hierae – P. hierapytnense – P. idaeum – P. minimum – P. obtusifolium – P. paratethycum – P. rhadamanthi – P. seisumsianum – P. talosii

Name

Prospero Salisb., Gen. Pl.: 28 (1866).

• Lectotypus (designated by Speta, Phyton (Horn) 38(1): 115. 1998): Prospero autumnale (L.) Speta
  

This genus indeed may turn out to be a synonym for Scilla (Valdés, 2004), but the details here indicate that there is an alternative view (Govaerts (et al.), 2018 and others).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Europe Northern Europe Great Britain. Middle Europe Hungary. Southwestern Europe Baleares, Corse, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain. Southeastern Europe Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Romania, Sicilia, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia. Eastern Europe Krym, Ukraine. Africa Northern Africa Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia. Asia-Temperate Caucasus North Caucasus, Transcaucasus. Western Asia Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Iran (doubtful), Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Turkey. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Salisbury, R.A.† 1866. The Genera of Plants 28.

Additional references

• Jang, T.-S., Emadzade, K., Parker, J., Temsch, E.M., Leitch, A.R., Speta, F. & Weiss-Schneeweiss, H. 2013. Chromosomal diversification and karyotype evolution of diploids in the cytologically diverse genus Prospero (Hyacinthaceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 13(136): 1–17. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-136 . Reference page. 
• Speta, F. 1998. Systematische Analyse der Gattung Scilla L. s.l. (Hyacinthaceae). Phyton (Horn) 38(1): 1–141. PDF Reference page.  (Prospero accepted)
• Valdés, B. 2004. Some Validations in Liliaceae. Willdenowia 34(1): 63–64. DOI: 10.3372/wi.34.34104 Reference page.  (Prospero merged with Scilla, but with little or no wider acceptance)

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Prospero in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2018 May 31. Reference page.  (Prospero accepted)
• International Plant Names Index. 2014. Prospero. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 3 2014.
• Tropicos.org 2014. Prospero. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 3 Mar. 2014. (Prospero accepted)
• Hassler, M. 2018. Prospero. 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. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 May 29. Reference page.  (Prospero accepted)

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