Diplacus layneae |
Diplacus bigelovii |
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Layne's monkeyflower |
Bigelow mimulus, Bigelow's monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, herbage usually drying dark. | Herbs, annual, herbage usually drying dark. | ||||
Stems | erect, 30–160(–300) mm, nodes 3–6, glandular-puberulent to glandular-pubescent, hairs 0.2–0.8 mm. |
erect, (10–)20–250(–320) mm, nodes 3–6, internodes 1–6 mm, glandular-pubescent to glandular-villous. |
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Leaves | usually cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole weakly delimited; blade elliptic to narrowly elliptic, oblanceolate, elliptic-oblanceolate, or elliptic-lanceolate, 8–27(–35) × 2–8 mm, margins entire, rarely toothed, plane, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces: proximals often glabrate, distals glandular-puberulent or glandular-pubescent. |
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 | 2–4(–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 | glandular-puberulent. |
glandular-puberulent. |
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Corollas | pinkish or pale to dark magenta or red-purple, each lobe usually with a faint to dark medial line extending 1/2 or less to tip, throat floor yellowish near base, mostly white with red-purple dots near mouth, palate ridges white, tube-throat 10–15 mm, limb (8–)10–16 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, (5–)6–8(–9) mm, glandular-puberulent to glandular-pubescent, tube strongly plicate, lobes triangular, subequal, apex acute, ribs broad, darkened, blackish, thickened, strongly raised, intercostal areas whitish, membranous. |
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 | 6–10(–13) mm. |
(6–)7–13(–15) mm. |
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Anthers | included, ciliate. |
included, glabrous, sometimes ciliate. |
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Stigmas | included, lobes unequal, abaxial 1.5 times adaxial. |
included, lobes equal. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Diplacus layneae |
Diplacus bigelovii |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | |||||
Habitat | Road banks, serpentine, granitic sand, red clay, lava beds and volcanic soils, openings in chaparral, shallow dry streambeds or stream banks, burned or otherwise disturbed open areas. | |||||
Elevation | (100–)400–2400 m. ((300–)1300–7900 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
CA
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AZ; CA; NV; UT
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Discussion | D. M. Thompson (2005) observed that two forms of Diplacus layneae co-occur from the Yosemite National Park area southward; one of these is recognized here as D. graniticola. (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. 437. | FNA vol. 17, p. 434. | ||||
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | ||||
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Synonyms | Eunanus layneae, Mimulus brachiatus, M. layneae | Eunanus bigelovii, Mimulus bigelovii | ||||
Name authority | (Greene) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 28. (2012) | ||||
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