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Gilia aliquanta

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Species of flowering plant

Gilia aliquanta
G. aliquanta amongst yellow Eriophyllum wallacei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Polemoniaceae
Genus: Gilia
Species: G. aliquanta
Binomial name
Gilia aliquanta
A.D.Grant & V.E.Grant

Gilia aliquanta is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name puffcalyx gilia. It is native to the Sierra Nevada mountains and deserts of southeastern California and southern Nevada.

It is a small herb producing a thin, spreading stem up to about 16 centimeters long, sometimes laced with cobwebby fibers. The fleshy, lobed leaves are each 1 to 3 centimeters long and located in a cluster around the base of the stem. The glandular inflorescence bears one or more flowers, each between one and two centimeters in total length. The base of the flower is a puffy saclike calyx of sepals which is ribbed, thin and membranous between the ribs and purple to purple spotted in color. The face of the flower is a lavender to purple corolla. The fruit is a valved, oval capsule.

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References

  1. Day, Alva (1965). "The Evolution of a Pair of Sibling Allotetraploid Species of Cobwebby Gilias (Polemoniaceae)". Aliso. 6 (1): 25–75. doi:10.5642/aliso.19650601.05. ISSN 2327-2929.
  2. Grant, Verne (1981-03-02). "4. The Biological Species". Plant Speciation. Columbia University Press. pp. 43–63. doi:10.7312/gran92318-005. ISBN 978-0-231-88811-0.
Taxon identifiers
Gilia aliquanta


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