Lathrocasis

Lathrocasis
Bodie Hills south of Willow Springs, Mono County, California
Apparently Secure
Apparently Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Polemoniaceae
Genus: Lathrocasis
L.A.Johnson
Species:
L. tenerrima
Binomial name
Lathrocasis tenerrima
(A.Gray) L.A.Johnson
Synonyms
List
    • Allophyllum tenerrimum
    • Gilia tenerrima
    • Navarretia tenerrima
    • Tintinabulum tenerrimum


Lathrocasis is a genus of flowering plants in the phlox family from the western United States and British Columbia. The genus has one species, Lathrocasis tenerrima, commonly delicate gilia.

Taxonomy

In 1870 Asa Gray described a new species in the Gilia genus which he named Gilia tenerrima. This species was then moved several times, but was placed in a new genus by Leigh Alma Johnson in 2000. Gray described the species from a specimen collected in Utah in hills near the Bear River in 1869. The genus is classified as part of the Polemoniaceae family and is a monotypic taxon. Lathrocasis tenerrima is the accepted name according to Plants of the World Online, although it is still listed as Gilia tenerrima in sources such as NatureServe. The species has no subspecies and four homotypic synonyms.

Table of Synonyms
Name Year Notes
Allophyllum tenerrimum (A.Gray) V.E.Grant 1998 Published 1999
Gilia tenerrima A.Gray 1870
Navarretia tenerrima (A.Gray) Kuntze 1891
Tintinabulum tenerrimum (A.Gray) A.G.Day & V.E.Grant 1998 Published 1999

Names

Lathrocasis tenerrima is known by the common names delicate gilia or delicate gily-flower.

References

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Books

  • Cronquist, Arthur; Holmgren, Arthur H.; Holmgren, Noel H.; Reveal, James L.; Holmgren, Patricia K. (1984). Intermountain Flora : Vascular Plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A.. Vol. Four. Subclass Asteridae (except Asteraceae). New York: Published for the New York Botanical Garden by Hafner Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-89327-248-7. OCLC 320442. Retrieved 8 July 2026.
  • Johnson, Timothy (1999). CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-1187-1. OCLC 39765430.

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