Taxon:
Prunus alleghaniensis Porter
Summary
Place of publication:
Bot. Gaz. 2:85. 1877
Verified:
05/04/2011
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Bortiri, E. et al. 2001. Phylogeny and systematics of Prunus (Rosaceae) as determined by sequence analysis of ITS and the chloroplast trnL-trnF spacer DNA. Syst. Bot. 26:797-807. Note: cited
- Bortiri, E. et al. 2006. Phylogenetic analysis of morphology in Prunus reveals extensive homoplasy. Pl. Syst. Evol. 259:53-71. Note: resolved a subgenus Prunus s.l. including members of Eurasian and North American plums, and apricots
- Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. Woody plants of Maryland. 1972 Note: accepts
- Center for Plant Conservation. Center for Plant Conservation National Collection of Endangered Plants (on-line resource). Note: accepts
- Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. 1963 Note: accepts
- IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource). Note: accepts
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976 Note: accepts
- Little, E. L., Jr. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. 1979 Note: accepts
- Okie, W. R. & J. F. Hancock. 2008. Chapter 11. Plums. Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics. 2008 337-357. Note: this review commented on Prunus angustifolia a member together with P. alleghaniensis of the "Chickasaw clade" (see Shaw & Small, 2005. Amer J Bot 92:2026) used as a gene source for Japanese plum
- Prunus Crop Germplasm Committee. 2010. Prunus vulnerability statement - 2010. 15. Note: accepts
- Reveal, J. L. & C. R. Broome. 1982. Comments on Maryland's proposed endangered and threatened vascular plants. Castanea 47:191-200. Note: this species was considered widespread, although restricted to one county in Maryland, it was recorded there with populations that supported its exclusion to be considered endangered or threatened
- Rohrer, J. R. et al. 2004. Microsatellite analysis of relationships among North American plums (Prunus sect. Prunocerasus, Rosaceae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 244:69-75. Note: this study used one sample of Prunus alleghaniensis confirming its affinities to P. gracilis, P. maritima, and P. umbellata
- Rohrer, J. R. 2011. Prunus (Rosaceae). Flora of North America. 1993- 9: in press. http://floranorthamerica.org/
- Shaw, J. & R. L. Small. 2004. Addressing the "hardest puzzle in American pomology:" Phylogeny of Prunus sect. Prunocerasus (Rosaceae) based on seven noncoding chloroplast DNA regions. Amer. J. Bot. 91:985-996. Note: accepts
- Shaw, J. & R. L. Small. 2005. Chloroplast DNA phylogeny and phylogeography of the North American plums (Prunus subgenus Prunus section Prunocerasus, Rosaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 92:2011-2030. Note: accepts
- Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2. 1978 Note: accepts
- Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961 Note: accepts
Economic Uses
Center for Plant Conservation listed