Diplacus deschutesensis |
Diplacus parryi |
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Deschutes monkeyflower |
annual redspot monkeyflower, Parry's monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual. | Herbs, annual. |
Stems | erect to erect-ascending, 40–150 mm, distal internodes 1–2 mm, minutely glandular-puberulent. |
erect, 10–120(–170) mm, finely and minutely glandular-puberulent. |
Leaves | usually cauline, relatively even-sized or gradually larger distally; petiole absent, proximal base short petiole-like; blade broadly ovate or obovate to elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 10–15(–25) × 4–13 mm, margins entire, plane, apex acuminate or cuspidate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely glandular-puberulent. |
usually cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent; blade narrowly elliptic to sublinear or oblanceolate, sometimes obovate, (5–)8–25(–31) × (1–)2–9(–12) mm, margins entire, plane, not ciliate, apex: proximals usually rounded, distals usually acute, surfaces glandular-puberulent. |
Pedicels | 1–1.5 mm in fruit. |
(1.5–)2–4(–9) mm in fruit. |
Flowers | usually from proximalmost to distal nodes, 2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous. |
2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous. |
Styles | puberulent, at least on distal 1/2. |
glandular-puberulent. |
Corollas | light pink to magenta or rose purple, usually with a darker narrow line extending from throat onto each lobe midvein, throat yellow, palate ridges yellow, tube-throat 8–12 mm, limb 10–16 mm diam., bilabiate. |
of 2 color forms: (a) magenta, ± deepening at mouth, usually with 6–8 darker spots in arc on abaxial lip around mouth, throat floor yellow to whitish with reddish speckling and (b) yellow with 6–8 narrow reddish spots or lines in arc on abaxial lip around mouth and reddish speckling on throat floor, palate ridges yellow extending onto lip, tube-throat (10–)12–18(–20) mm, limb 11–17.5(–20) mm diam., not bilabiate. |
Calyces | symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, 7–8 mm, glandular-puberulent, lobes subequal, apex linear-acuminate, ribs green distally, intercostal areas whitish. |
symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, (5–)7–12(–13) mm, glandular-puberulent, lobes unequal, adaxial longer, apex broadly rounded to acute, often apiculate, ribs often dark purple, intercostal areas purplish or white. |
Capsules | 7–9 mm. |
(5.5–)6.5–10.5 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous or sparsely hispidulous. |
included, glabrous. |
Stigmas | exserted, lobes subequal, abaxial slightly longer. |
included, lobes equal. |
2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
Diplacus deschutesensis |
Diplacus parryi |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Jul). |
Habitat | Sandy and ashy soils, pumice sand and gravel, red clay slopes, hillsides, roadsides, bare areas, sagebrush, sagebrush-juniper, juniper, yellow pine and lodgepole pine forests. | Banks, gravel bars, washes, sandy ravines, rocky hillsides, ledges and bases of limestone ledges and boulders, clay loam-basalt, bare areas, often with Coleogyne and Larrea, sagebrush and pinyon-juniper. |
Elevation | 700–1500 m. (2300–4900 ft.) | (600–)800–1700(–2200) m. ((2000–)2600–5600(–7200) ft.) |
Distribution |
OR
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AZ; CA; NV; UT
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Discussion | Diplacus deschutesensis is endemic to Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, and Wheeler counties of central Oregon. D. M. Thompson (2005) regarded these plants as a zone of stabilized hybrids, intermediate between Mimulus cusickii and typical M. nanus, the range just outside and west of the wider range of typical M. cusickii. In an earlier study that included both of the latter species, W. L. Ezell (1971, and by annotation in 1987) identified the same set of plants simply as M. cusickii, not associating them at all with M. nanus. A. L. Grant (1924, and by annotation of MO collections) identified them variously as either M. cusickii or M. ovatus. Thompson did not say what features of intermediacy he observed in the putative hybrids, but he did note that they produced leaves with acuminate-cuspidate apices and that they would key to M. cusickii. Leaves of Diplacus deschutesensis are broad with abruptly and sharply acuminate apices like those of D. cusickii, and the corolla coloration also is similar. The flowers (calyx length, corolla tube-throat length, limb width) and capsules of D. deschutesensis are considerably smaller, and the distal leaves are smaller with glabrous surfaces. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Diplacus parryi has a limited range, primarily in the Mohave Desert in four states: Arizona (Mohave County), California (Inyo County, where apparently disjunct, in pinyon-juniper woodlands, and at higher than typical elevation), Nevada (Clark and Lincoln counties), and Utah (Washington County). The glandular-puberulent vestiture and unequal calyx lobes are diagnostic. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 440. | FNA vol. 17, p. 442. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
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Synonyms | Mimulus parryi, M. spissus var. lincolnensis | |
Name authority | G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2013-65: 8, fig. 5. (2013) | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 27. (2012) |
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