Muilla

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants in the asparagus family}}

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|image_caption = Muilla maritima

|taxon = Muilla

|authority = S.Watson ex Benth.

|type_species = Muilla maritima

|type_species_authority = S.Watson ex Benth.

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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.[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?key=9541 Jepson Manual (TJM2) Key to Muilla species] . accessed 1 May 2016.

In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Brodiaeoideae.{{Citation |last=Chase |first=M.W. |last2=Reveal |first2=J.L. |last3=Fay |first3=M.F. |year=2009 |title=A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=132–136 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00999.x|name-list-style=amp |doi-access=free }}{{citation |last=Stevens |first=P.F. |title=Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: Asparagales: Allioideae |url=http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/orders/asparagalesweb.htm#Alliaceae }} The subfamily has also been treated as a separate family Themidaceae.[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?key=93795 Jepson Herbarium, Jepson Manual (TJM2): Key to Themidaceae genera] . accessed 29 April 2016.[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=9541 Jepson Manual (TJM2) treatment of Muilla, family Themidaceae] . accessed 1 May 2016.[http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/specieslist.cgi?where-family=THEMIDACEAE Calflora Database: Themidaceae genera] . accessed 1 May 2016.[http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/specieslist.cgi?where-genus=Muilla Calflora: Muilla, family Themidaceae] . accessed 1 May 2016.

Distribution

Muilla species are native to southwestern North America.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=281617 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

Species

;Current species [http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Muilla Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution maps]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
class="wikitable"
120px	Muilla coronata Greene	crowned muilla	Mojave Desert region in southeastern California and southern Nevada.[http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=5715 Calflora: Muilla coronata (Crowned muilla)]
120px	Muilla lordsburgana P.J. Alexander	Lordsburg noino	eastern fringe of the Chihuahuan Desert around Lordsburg Mesa in New Mexico.[https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2021/04/16/2020.09.24.312215.full.pdf biorxiv: Muilla lordsburgana (Lordsburg noino)]
120px	Muilla maritima (Torr.) S.Watson ex Benth. in G.Bentham & J.D.Hooker	sea muilla	central and southern California; northern Baja California.[http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=5716 Calflora: Muilla maritima (Sea muilla, Common muilla)]
120px	Muilla transmontana Greene	Great Basin muilla	Mojave Desert and Great Basin regions in southeastern and northeastern California and western Nevada.[http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=5717 Calflora: Muilla transmontana (Great basin muilla, Inland muilla)]

;Formerly included species

Muilla clevelandii (S.Watson) Hoover — synonym of Bloomeria clevelandii S.Watson

References

External links

[http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/specieslist.cgi?where-genus=Muilla Calflora Database: Muilla species]
[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=9541 Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Muilla]
[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MUILL USDA Plants Profile for Muilla]
[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=121293 Flora of North America: Muilla]

Category:Asparagaceae genera

Category:Brodiaeoideae

Category:Flora of Baja California

Category:Flora of California

Category:Flora of Nevada