Taxon: Prunus alleghaniensis Porter

Synonym of Prunus umbellata Elliott

Species on the following lists:

• Center for Plant Conservation (accepts this name)
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

References:

• 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. [cited].
• Bortiri, E. et al. 2006. Phylogenetic analysis of morphology in Prunus reveals extensive homoplasy. Pl. Syst. Evol. 259:53–71. [resolved a subgenus Prunus s.l. including members of Eurasian and North American plums, and apricots].
• Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. 1972. Woody plants of Maryland. [accepts].
• CGC Prunus. 2010. Prunus vulnerability statement - 2010. 15. [accepts].
• Center for Plant Conservation. Center for Plant Conservation National Collection of Endangered Plants (on-line resource). [accepts].
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. [accepts].
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource). [accepts].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [accepts].
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. [accepts].
• Okie, W. R. & J. F. Hancock. 2008. Chapter 11. Plums. In: Hancock, J. F., ed., Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics. 337–357. [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].
• Reveal, J. L. & C. R. Broome. 1982. Comments on Maryland's proposed endangered and threatened vascular plants. Castanea 47:191–200. [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. [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). In: FNA Editorial Committee, Flora of North America. 9: in press.
• 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. [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. [accepts].
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2. [accepts].
• Webster's third new international dictionary. [accepts].

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Check other web resources for Prunus alleghaniensis Porter:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

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