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Gilia aliquanta

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Gilia aliquanta
G. aliquanta amongst yellow Eriophyllum wallacei
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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.[1] 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.[2] 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

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  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.