Ipomopsis longiflora

Ipomopsis longiflora
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Polemoniaceae
Genus: Ipomopsis
Species:
I. longiflora
Binomial name
Ipomopsis longiflora
Subspecies
  • I. l. subsp. australis
  • I. l. subsp. longiflora
  • I. l. subsp. neomexicana
Synonyms
  • Batanthes longiflora
  • Cantua longiflora
  • Collomia longiflora
  • Gilia longiflora
  • Navarretia longiflora
  • Polemonium candidum

Ipomopsis longiflora, commonly known as flaxflowered gilia or flaxflowered ipomopsis, is a plant species. The Zuni people utilize the dried, powdered flowers and water of I. longiflora subsp. longiflora to prepare a poultice for removing hair from newborns and children.

Taxonomy

The first scientific description of Ipomopsis longiflora was by John Torrey in 1828; he placed it in the genus Cantua with the name Cantua longiflora. It was moved to the genus Gilia in 1837 by George Don and to Ipomopsis in 1956 by Verne Grant, giving the species its accepted name. Together with its genus it is classified in the Polemoniaceae family and has three accepted subspecies.

Ipomopsis longiflora has ten synonyms of the species and its three subspecies.

Table of Synonyms
Name Year Rank Synonym of: Notes
Batanthes longiflora (Torr.) Raf. 1832 species I. longiflora ≡ hom.
Cantua longiflora Torr. 1828 species I. longiflora ≡ hom.
Collomia longiflora (Torr.) A.Gray 1870 species I. longiflora ≡ hom.
Gilia longiflora (Torr.) G.Don 1837 species I. longiflora ≡ hom.
Gilia longiflora var. laxiflora Brand 1907 variety subsp. longiflora = het.
Ipomopsis longiflora var. australis (R.A.Fletcher & W.L.Wagner) B.L.Turner 2003 variety subsp. australis ≡ hom.
Ipomopsis longiflora var. neomexicana (Wilken) B.L.Turner 2003 variety subsp. neomexicana ≡ hom.
Navarretia longiflora (Torr.) Kuntze 1891 species I. longiflora ≡ hom.
Navarretia longiflora var. denverensis Kuntze 1891 variety subsp. longiflora = het.
Polemonium candidum Sessé & Moc. 1893 species subsp. longiflora = het.
Notes: ≡ homotypic synonym ; = heterotypic synonym

References

Citations

  1. ↑ NatureServe 2026.
  2. 1 2 POWO 2026a.
  3. ↑ POWO 2026a; POWO 2026c.
  4. ↑ Camazine, Scott & Robert A. Bye (1980). "A study of the medical ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 2 (4): 365–388. doi:10.1016/S0378-8741(80)81017-8. PMID 6893476.
  5. ↑ POWO 2026b.
  6. ↑ POWO 2026c.
  7. ↑ POWO 2026d.
  8. ↑ POWO 2026a; POWO 2026b; POWO 2026c; POWO 2026d.

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