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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Uvularia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 304. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 144. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Bellwort;merrybells
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oakesia
|authority=Oakesia S. Watson
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oakesiella
|authority=Oakesiella Small
}}
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Uvularia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Uvularia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin uvula, alluding to the flowers hanging like that organ, and to formerly supposed efficacy in treating diseases of it
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 51, 57
|treatment_page=page 147
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> caulescent, glabrous or pubescent, from short or elongate rhizomes bearing several fibrous or thickened roots. <b>Stems</b> simple or 1-branched, excluding flower-bearing branches, strongly angled or rounded, with sheathing, papery bracts proximally. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, sessile or perfoliate; blade oblong-linear to oblong-ovate, membranaceous to leathery. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1 per branch, terminal but appearing axillary; peduncles pendent. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth narrowly campanulate; tepals promptly deciduous, imbricate, distinct, linear to narrowly oblong, apex obtuse or acute, nectariferous; stamens distinct to weakly connate at perianth base; filaments dimorphic, glabrous; anthers linear-oblong, extrorse; connectives present; ovary superior, 3-locular, sessile or stipitate, rounded to sharply triangular; style 1, 3-lobed; stigmas 3, lobed, outwardly arching at maturity. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, greenish to yellowish brown, sessile or stipitate, leathery or submembranaceous, tardily dehiscent, dehiscence loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> 1–3 per locule, brownish red, globose to ovoid; arils various. <b>x</b> = 6, 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=e North America.
|discussion=<p>Species 5 (5 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Uvularia</i>, a genus of attractive, spring-blooming plants, has been divided into sect. Oakesiella (Small) Wilbur with sessile leaves and sect. <i>Uvularia</i> with perfoliate leaves. Differences in other morphological (R. L. Wilbur 1963) and cytological (F. H. Utech 1978d) characters support recognition of these infrageneric groups.</p><!--
--><p>D. K. Wijesinghe and D. F. Whigham (1997, 2001) compared the different, below-ground, vegetative morphologies of three <i>Uvularia</i> species and their relationship to their differing clonal populations and dynamics.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=anderson1934b
|text=Anderson, E. and T. W. Whitaker. 1934. Speciation in Uvularia. J. Arnold Arbor. 15: 28–42.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=dietz1952a
|text=Dietz, R. A. 1952. Variation in the perfoliate uvularias. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 39: 219–247.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=hayashi1998a
|text=Hayashi, K. et al. 1998. Molecular systematics of the genus Uvularia and selected Liliales based upon matK and rbcL gene sequence data. Pl. Spec. Biol. 13: 129–146.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=kawano1964a
|text=Kawano, S. and H. H. Iltis. 1964. Cytotaxonomic and geographic notes on Uvularia (Liliaceae). Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 91: 13–23.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=soper1952a
|text=Soper, J. H. 1952. Phytogeographic studies in Ontario I. The genus Uvularia in southern Ontario. Rhodora 54: 58–67.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=wijesinghe2001a
|text=Wijesinghe, D. K. and D. F. Whigham. 2001. Nutrient foraging in woodland herbs: A comparison of three species of Uvularia (Liliaceae) with contrasting belowground morphologies. Amer. J. Bot. 88: 1071–1079.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=wilbur1963a
|text=Wilbur, R. L. 1963. A revision of the North American genus Uvularia (Liliaceae). Rhodora 65: 158–188.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stems rounded; leaf blades perfoliate, margins smooth; capsules obovoid to truncate; tepals smooth or densely papillose adaxially.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stems angled distally; leaf blades sessile, margins minutely papillose-denticulate; capsules generally ellipsoid; tepals smooth adaxially.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaves pubescent (rarely glabrous) on abaxial veins; leaves below lowest branch typically 1; tepals smooth adaxially; capsule with 2 truncate beaks per lobe.
|[[Uvularia grandiflora|Uvularia grandiflora]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaves glaucous, smooth abaxially; leaves below lowest branch (2–)3–4; tepals orange-papillose adaxially; capsule with 2 attenuate beaks per lobe.
|[[Uvularia perfoliata|Uvularia perfoliata]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Rhizomes short, 0.5–1 cm, bearing numerous, clustered, fleshy roots; stem nodes and abaxial leaf veins puberulent.
|[[Uvularia puberula|Uvularia puberula]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Rhizomes elongate, 10–15 cm, bearing scattered, fibrous roots; stem nodes and abaxial leaf surfaces glabrous.
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Peduncles ebracteate; tepal apex rounded to acute; ovary and capsule stipitate.
|[[Uvularia sessilifolia|Uvularia sessilifolia]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Peduncles bearing 1, ovate, leafy bract; tepal apex acuminate; ovary and capsule sessile or subsessile.
|[[Uvularia floridana|Uvularia floridana]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Uvularia
|author=Frederick H. Utech;Shoichi Kawano
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Oakesia;Oakesiella
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|distribution=e North America.
|reference=anderson1934b;dietz1952a;hayashi1998a;kawano1964a;soper1952a;wijesinghe2001a;wilbur1963a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_235.xml
|genus=Uvularia
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