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A Study Of Trillium Cuneatum And T. Luteum, Alan B. Adams
A Study Of Trillium Cuneatum And T. Luteum, Alan B. Adams
Masters Theses
A systematic study was made of two taxa of the genus Trillium subgenus Phyllantherum. Morphological, biochemical, ecological, and distributional data were analyzed in order to reevaluate past taxonomic treatments of Trillium cuneatum and T. luteum.
Morphological studies revealed the similarities of the two taxa. It was noted that T. cuneatum exhibited great plasticity with respect to morphology, whereas T. luteum showed more homogenous features. This same relationship was noted with the flavonoids of the two taxa with T. cuneatum showing more variability than T. luteum. The chemistry of the two taxa was unique in that quercetin and kaempferol compounds identified …