Gilia aliquanta explained

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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Notes and References

  1. Day . Alva . 1965 . The Evolution of a Pair of Sibling Allotetraploid Species of Cobwebby Gilias (Polemoniaceae) . Aliso . 6 . 1 . 25–75 . 10.5642/aliso.19650601.05 . 2327-2929. free .
  2. Book: Grant, Verne . Plant Speciation . https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7312/gran92318-005/html . 4. The Biological Species . 1981-03-02 . 43–63 . Columbia University Press . 978-0-231-88811-0 . en . 10.7312/gran92318-005.