Biology:Muilla

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants in the asparagus family

Muilla
Muilla maritima.jpg
Muilla maritima
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Brodiaeoideae
Genus: Muilla
S.Watson ex Benth.
Type species
Muilla maritima
S.Watson ex Benth.

Muilla is a genus of monocots in the family Asparagaceae. It includes four to five species of flowering plants.

Taxonomy

The genus name is a taxonomic anagram of Allium (in fact, the letters are in exact reverse order), the onion genus, for the flowers' resemblance.[1]

In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Brodiaeoideae.[2][3] The subfamily has also been treated as a separate family Themidaceae.[4][5][6][7]

Distribution

Muilla species are native to southwestern North America.[5][8]

Species

Current species [5][7][8][9]
Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Muilla coronata 38824335.jpg Muilla coronata Greene crowned muilla Mojave Desert region in southeastern California and southern Nevada.[10]
Muilla - Flickr - aspidoscelis (56).jpg Muilla lordsburgana P.J. Alexander Lordsburg noino eastern fringe of the Chihuahuan Desert around Lordsburg Mesa in New Mexico.[11]
Muilla maritima.jpg Muilla maritima (Torr.) S.Watson ex Benth. in G.Bentham & J.D.Hooker sea muilla central and southern California; northern Baja California.[12]
Muilla transmontana 59777511.jpg Muilla transmontana Greene Great Basin muilla Mojave Desert and Great Basin regions in southeastern and northeastern California and western Nevada.[13]
Formerly included species

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2711340 entry