Ipomopsis multiflora

Ipomopsis multiflora
Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Polemoniaceae
Genus: Ipomopsis
Species:
I. multiflora
Binomial name
Ipomopsis multiflora
Subspecies
  • I. m. subsp. brachysiphon
  • I. m. subsp. multiflora
  • I. m. subsp. whitingii
Synonyms
  • Gilia brachysiphon
  • Gilia exserta
  • Gilia multiflora
  • Navarretia multiflora

Ipomopsis multiflora, known as manyflowered gilia or manyflowered ipomopsis, is a short-lived perennial flowering plant. Among the Zuni people, the powdered whole plant is applied to face to cure headache, and it is also applied to wounds. The crushed blossoms are smoked in corn husks to "relieve strangulation".

Ipomopsis multiflora grows 15 to 50 cm (6 to 20 in) tall with short and long, glandular and unglandular hairs on its stems.

Taxonomy

In 1848 botanist Thomas Nuttall described a new species in the genus Gilia which he named Gilia multiflora. In 1891 Otto Kuntze proposed moving it to Navarretia, but Verne Grant moved it to Ipomopsis in 1956 giving the species what has become its accepted name of Ipomopsis multiflora. Together with its genus it is classified in the Polemoniaceae family and the species has three accepted subspecies.

Ipomopsis multiflora has eight synonyms of the species or one of its three subspecies.

Table of Synonyms
Name Year Rank Synonym of: Notes
Gilia brachysiphon Wooton & Standl. 1913 species subsp. brachysiphon ≡ hom.
Gilia exserta A.Nelson 1905 species subsp. multiflora = het.
Gilia multiflora Nutt. 1848 species I. multiflora ≡ hom.
Gilia multiflora var. glabristyla Brand 1921 variety subsp. multiflora = het.
Gilia multiflora var. polyantha Brand 1907 variety subsp. multiflora = het.
Gilia polyantha var. brachysiphon (Wooton & Standl.) Kearney & Peebles 1943 variety subsp. brachysiphon ≡ hom.
Gilia polyantha var. whitingii Kearney & Peebles 1943 variety subsp. whitingii ≡ hom.
Navarretia multiflora (Nutt.) Kuntze 1891 species I. multiflora ≡ hom.
Notes: ≡ homotypic synonym; = heterotypic synonym

References

Citations

  1. ↑ NatureServe 2026.
  2. 1 2 POWO 2026a.
  3. ↑ POWO 2026a; POWO 2026b; POWO 2026c.
  4. ↑ Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30. p. 52.
  5. ↑ "Ipomopsis multiflora". swbiodiversity.org. SEINet Portal Network. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  6. ↑ POWO 2026b.
  7. ↑ POWO 2026c.
  8. ↑ POWO 2026d.
  9. ↑ POWO 2026a; POWO 2026b; POWO 2026c; POWO 2026d.

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