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While engaged in a survey for narrowly restricted plant species in the vicinity of a gypsum mining operation in Emery County, on 21 May 2013, Ron Kass and Karen Ann Preston Kass were exploring some low bluffs in outcrops of the Jurassic Carmel Formation when they discovered a small population of a very distinctive plant. It is a mound-forming, long-lived perennial with leaves of conformation unusual for the genus Gilia, and with lavender flowers, whose floral size places the plant with a small group of evidently allied species (see key below). Voucher material was collected, pressed, and dried in standard format for herbarium specimens. That collection (the holotype and a solitary isotype) was sufficiently different that the site was revisited on 28 May 2013 by Ron and Karen Kass accompanied by S.L. Welsh. Solitary caudex branches with flowering shoots were selected from several of the clumps to serve as paratypes (thus the plants were not removed and were left alive and in full flower). %26lt;br%26gt;The population of the plant is remote from the gypsum mine by several hundred yards, and there are other similar outcrops of the Carmel Formation trending southwest from the site that will serve as type locality for the new proposal. The entire exposure of similar low bluff margins requires investigation to determine the extent of the species beyond the initial discovery. %26lt;br%26gt;The following key is adapted from A Utah Flora (Welsh et al. 2008:554).
- 出版日期2014-6
