Diplacus johnstonii |
Diplacus bigelovii |
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Johnston's monkeyflower |
Bigelow mimulus, Bigelow's monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual. | Herbs, annual, herbage usually drying dark. | ||||
Stems | erect, (10–)30–200(–300) mm, densely glandular-puberulent. |
erect, (10–)20–250(–320) mm, nodes 3–6, internodes 1–6 mm, glandular-pubescent to glandular-villous. |
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Leaves | basal and cauline, gradually reduced distally; petiole absent, bases of larger leaves often with petiole-like extensions; blade obovate or oblanceolate, sometimes elliptic, (4.5–)7–25(–32) × 2–12(–15) mm, margins entire, plane, apex rounded to acute, surfaces densely glandular-puberulent. |
usually cauline, relatively even-sized or reduced distally; petiole absent, bases of largest leaves often long-tapered to petiole-like extensions; blade obovate, elliptic, or oblanceolate, (5–)7–35(–50) × (2–)3–18(–26) mm, margins entire, rarely toothed, plane, apex abruptly acuminate, acute-acuminate, or cuspidate to long-tapering or long-acuminate, surfaces glandular-pubescent. |
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Pedicels | 1–4(–5) mm in fruit. |
1–4(–8) mm in fruit. |
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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. |
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Styles | densely glandular-puberulent distally. |
glandular-puberulent. |
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Corollas | magenta, darker and more reddish in throat and, often, along narrow radiating lines extending from throat onto midveins of lobes, throat usually with a large dark spot on each side of mouth on lateral walls, palate ridges and throat floor yellow with reddish spots, tube-throat 9–15 mm, limb 10–15 mm diam., not bilabiate. |
magenta with dark reddish spot on each side of mouth on interior lateral walls of throat, usually with reddish lines extending from throat onto midveins of lobes, throat floor yellow with reddish speckling and variable reddish markings, palate ridges yellow, tube-throat (9–)12–22 mm, limb 12–24 mm diam., not bilabiate. |
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Calyces | symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, (6–)7–11 mm, glandular-puberulent, lobes unequal, apex acute to acuminate, ribs inconspicuous, intercostal areas reddish. |
symmetrically attached to pedicels, inflated in fruit, 6–13(–15) mm, glandular-pubescent, tube strongly plicate, lobes slightly recurved, narrowly triangular, subequal, often slightly indurate, apex acuminate to attenuate, ribs broad, darkened, blackish, thickened, strongly raised, intercostal areas whitish, membranous. |
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Capsules | 7–12 mm. |
(6–)7–13(–15) mm. |
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Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous, sometimes ciliate. |
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Stigmas | exserted or at opening of corolla tube-throat, lobes equal. |
included, lobes equal. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Diplacus johnstonii |
Diplacus bigelovii |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | |||||
Habitat | Steep, unstable scree slides, talus slopes, gravel slides, cracks in granite cliffs, ridges, washes, steep sand and gravel slopes, canyon bottoms, gravelly road banks, recent burns, desert scrub, chaparral, juniper, pinyon-juniper, lodgepole pine, yellow pine, Jeffrey pine, and Jeffrey pine-western white pine-fir woodlands. | |||||
Elevation | (1000–)1300–2900 m. ((3300–)4300–9500 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
CA
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AZ; CA; NV; UT
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Discussion | Populations of Diplacus johnstonii occur in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties. The populations in northwestern Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties were noted by D. M. Thompson (2005) to be intermediate between D. constrictus and D. johnstonii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Diplacus bigelovii is distributed in southeastern California from southern Mono County south to Imperial and San Diego counties through southern Nevada into Washington County, Utah, and La Paz and Mohave counties, Arizona. The relatively sharp line dividing the two varieties roughly follows the Inyo-San Bernardino county line, then cuts across Clark County, Nevada, and Mojave County, Arizona. Diplacus bigelovii can generally be recognized by its relatively large, nearly radially symmetric corollas, included stigmas, and inflated mature calyces with lobes of unequal length and apices acuminate-attenuate. The two varieties have distinctive leaf shapes; D. M. Thompson (2005) reported them as very closely parapatric and exhibiting limited intergradation near their contiguous occurrence. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 433. | FNA vol. 17, p. 434. | ||||
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | ||||
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Synonyms | Mimulus johnstonii | Eunanus bigelovii, Mimulus bigelovii | ||||
Name authority | (A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 28. (2012) | ||||
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