Aliciella is a genus of plants in the phlox family

Polemoniaceae

Polemoniaceae are a family of about 25 genera with 270-400 species of annual and perennial plants, native to the Northern Hemisphere and South America, with the center of diversity in western North America, especially in California.Only one genus is found in Europe, and two in Asia, where they...

. These plants have been treated as members of genus Gilia

Gilia

Gilia is a genus of between 25 and 50 species of flowering plants in the family Polemoniaceae, native to temperate and tropical regions of the Americas, from the western United States south to northern Chile, where they occur mainly in desert or semi-desert habitats.They are herbaceous annuals,...

until recently, when it was proposed they be moved back to Aliciella. This genus was created in 1905 to include certain gilias that seemed distinct from most of the others, but it was abandoned soon after. Recent genetic analyses

Genetic analysis

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 suggest it should be revived.

Selected current species:

• Aliciella caespitosa - Rabbit Valley gilia
• Aliciella formosa - Aztec gilia
• Aliciella haydenii - San Juan gilia
• Aliciella heterostyla - cactus flat gilia
• Aliciella hutchinsifolia - desert pale gilia
• Aliciella latifolia - broadleaf gilia
• Aliciella leptomeria
  Aliciella leptomeria
  Aliciella leptomeria is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names Sand gilia and Great Basin gilia...
  
  - sand gilia
• Aliciella lottiae - Lott's gilia
• Aliciella micromeria
  Aliciella micromeria
  Aliciella micromeria is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name dainty gilia. It is native to the western United States, especially the Great Basin. It is a small herb producing a thin, branching stem up to about 14 centimeters tall. It is coated thinly in soft...
  
  - dainty gilia
• Aliciella nyensis - Nye gilia
• Aliciella penstemonoides - Black Canyon gilia
• Aliciella pinnatifida - sticky gilia
• Aliciella ripleyi - Ripley's gilia
• Aliciella sedifolia
  Aliciella sedifolia
  Aliciella sedifolia is a rare species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name stonecrop gilia. It is endemic to Colorado in the United States, where it is limited to a small area in the San Juan Mountains.This plant is unlikely to be confused with any other...
  
  - stonecrop gilia
• Aliciella subacaulis
  Aliciella subacaulis
  Aliciella subacaulis is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name pinyon gilia. It is native to the western United States from California to Wyoming, where it grows in several types of habitat, such as sagebrush and desert woodlands...
  
  - pinyon gilia
• Aliciella subnuda - coral gilia
• Aliciella tenuis
  Aliciella tenuis
  Aliciella tenuis is a rare species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Mussentuchit gilia, or Mussentuchit Creek gilia. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it occurs only in the San Rafael Swell.This plant is a perennial herb growing up to 15 centimeters...
  
  - Mussentuchit Creek gilia
• Aliciella triodon
  Aliciella triodon
  Aliciella triodon is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name coyote gilia. It is native to the American desert southwest from California to New Mexico, where it grows in desert habitat such as scrub and woodland. This small herb produces a thin, glandular stem not...
  
  - coyote gilia

Genus Aliciella was named for the botanist Alice Eastwood

Alice Eastwood

Alice Eastwood was a Canadian American botanist. Born in Toronto, she moved to the United States at 14, and from age twenty to thirty, was a teacher in Denver, Colorado and taught herself botany. In 1890 she assumed a post in the herbarium at the California Academy of Sciences...

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