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Muilla coronata
CROWNED MUILLA


Higher Taxonomy
Family: ThemidaceaeView DescriptionDichotomous Key
Common Name: BRODIAEA FAMILY
Habit: Perennial herb from corm, outer coat fibrous [membranous]; daughter corms formed at stem base above corm of previous year, cormlets formed at base of corms or on short stolons. Leaf: basal, 1--10, linear to narrow-lanceolate. Inflorescence: scapose, generally umbel-like; scape erect, generally 1(2), cylindric, generally rigid, occasionally wavy to twining; flower bracts 2--4[10], not enclosing flower buds. Flower: perianth parts 6 in 2 petal-like whorls, free or +- fused below into tube; staminodes 0 or 3; stamens 3 or 6, free or fused to perianth, occasionally appendaged; ovary superior, chambers 3, ovules 2--several per chamber. Fruit: capsule, loculicidal.
Genera In Family: 13 genera, 70--80 species: western North America.
eFlora Treatment Author: J. Chris Pires & Robert E. Preston, except as noted
Scientific Editor: Dale W. McNeal, Thomas J. Rosatti, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Genus: MuillaView DescriptionDichotomous Key


Leaf: 1--10, basal, linear. Inflorescence: scape 3--50 cm; bracts several, papery, acuminate; pedicels slender, not jointed, erect. Flower: perianth parts +- free at base, not forming obvious tube, lobes spreading, generally equal, lanceolate or oblong, white to green-white or +- blue; stamens 6, filaments thread-like to dilated, occasionally overlapped or fused but not forming cup, anthers attached at middle; style short, club-shaped, persistent, stigma 3-lobed. Fruit: +- spheric, 3-angled. Seed: irregularly angled, black.
Etymology: (Anagram of Allium, from superficial resemblance) Note: Muilla clevelandii moved to Bloomeria.
eFlora Treatment Author: J. Chris Pires
Reference: Shevock 1984 Aliso 10:621--627
Unabridged Reference: Ingram 1953 Madroño 12:19--27; Lenz 1975 Aliso 8:259--262
Muilla coronata Greene
NATIVE
Leaf: 1(2), 7--18 cm. Inflorescence: scape 3--5 cm; pedicels 10--30 mm; flowers 2--10. Flower: perianth lobes 3--6 mm, +- white or +- blue, midvein green abaxially; stamens 2--4 mm, filaments dilated throughout, free but with wide overlapped margins forming nectar tube with cylindric crown, anthers yellow. Fruit: 3--7 mm. Chromosomes: n=7.
Ecology: Open desert scrub, woodland; Elevation: 1000--1600 m. Bioregional Distribution: s SNH, SNE, DMoj, expected Teh; Distribution Outside California: western Nevada. Flowering Time: Mar--Apr
Jepson eFlora Author: J. Chris Pires
Reference: Shevock 1984 Aliso 10:621--627
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Citation for this treatment: J. Chris Pires 2012, Muilla coronata, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=34145, accessed on April 18, 2024.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 18, 2024.

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