Diplacus graniticola |
Diplacus traskiae |
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granite-crack monkeyflower |
Santa Catalina Island monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, herbage usually drying dark. | Herbs, annual. |
Stems | erect, 60–120(–150) mm, nodes 4–15(–20), internodes shorter than leaves, glandular-villous with gland-tipped hairs 1–1.6 mm. |
erect, 80–120 mm, glandular-pubescent. |
Leaves | usually cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole weakly delimited; blade usually lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 20–40 × 4–12 mm, margins entire, rarely toothed, plane, apex rounded to obtuse or acute, surfaces: proximals often glabrate abaxially, distals glandular-villous. |
cauline, nearly even-sized or enlarging distally; petiole absent or with petiole-like extension; blade ovate to obovate, 12–41 × 5–21 mm, margins entire or crenate, plane, usually ciliate proximally, apex obtuse, surfaces glandular-pubescent. |
Pedicels | 1–3 mm in fruit. |
3–5 mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 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 | glandular-puberulent. |
puberulent distally. |
Corollas | nearly white or pale lavender to pinkish or pale to dark magenta, each lobe with a dark medial line extending nearly to tip, throat with a dark red or purple splotch at junction of each abaxial lobe and adjacent lateral lobe, throat floor sometimes with 2 adjacent white splotches at lateral lobe bases, palate ridges yellow, tube-throat 15–20 mm, limb 10–16 mm diam., bilabiate. |
throat magenta, abaxial lip magenta, adaxial lip whitish, palate ridges not seen, tube-throat 20–23 mm, limb 4–5 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes of abaxial lip smaller than adaxial. |
Calyces | symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, 8–12 mm, glandular-villous, tube strongly plicate, lobes triangular, subequal, apex acute, ribs narrow, darkened, blackish, thickened, strongly raised, intercostal areas green to purple, not membranous. |
distinctly asymmetrically attached to pedicel, not inflated in fruit, 18–21 mm, glandular-pubescent, lobes subequal, apex acute, ribs usually green, intercostal areas whitish. |
Capsules | 6–10 mm. |
not seen. |
Anthers | included, ciliate. |
(distal pair) nearly exserted, glabrous. |
Stigmas | included, lobes unequal, abaxial 1.5 times adaxial. |
exserted, lobes unequal, abaxial 6–8 times adaxial. |
2n | = 16. |
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Diplacus graniticola |
Diplacus traskiae |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Sep. | Flowering Mar–Apr. |
Habitat | Granite cracks and crevices. | Rocky, brushy slopes. |
Elevation | 300–2100 m. (1000–6900 ft.) | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA |
Discussion | Diplacus graniticola occurs in the Sierra Nevada from Tuolumne County to northern Tulare County. These plants previously were identified within D. layneae, with which they are partially sympatric; where these two occur together, D. layneae often grows in granite-derived sand and gravel immediately adjacent to the granite rock habitat of D. graniticola. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Diplacus traskiae is known only from Santa Catalina Island. According to the California Native Plant Society Online Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants, ed. 8 (http://www.cnps.org/cnps/rareplants/inventory/), it (as Mimulus traskiae) is possibly extirpated. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 438. | FNA vol. 17, p. 446. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Mimulus traskiae | |
Name authority | Schoenig: Phytoneuron 2017-24: 1, figs. 1, 3–10. (2017) | (A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 32. (2012) |
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