Diplacus layneae |
Diplacus douglasii |
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Layne's monkeyflower |
brownies, Douglas' monkeyflower, mouse-ear monkeyflower, purple mouse-ears |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, herbage usually drying dark. | Herbs, annual. |
Stems | erect, 30–160(–300) mm, nodes 3–6, glandular-puberulent to glandular-pubescent, hairs 0.2–0.8 mm. |
erect, 3–40(–80) mm, glandular-puberulent and/or glandular-pubescent. |
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 basal, reduced distally; petiole absent, larger with petiole-like extension; blade obovate to elliptic, 5–28(–35) × (2–)3–10(–12) mm, margins entire or crenate, plane, not ciliate, apex obtuse, surfaces: proximals glabrate, distals glandular-pilose adaxially. |
Pedicels | 2–4(–5) mm in fruit. |
(1–)2–4 mm in fruit, usually twisting to invert calyx. |
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 or cleistogamous. |
Styles | glandular-puberulent. |
pubescent distally. |
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. |
throat magenta to dark purple, inside with longitudinal gold markings basally, adaxial lip magenta, palate ridges golden yellow, tube-throat (15–)20–41(–45) mm, limb 10–14 mm diam., abaxial lip essentially absent. |
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. |
distinctly asymmetrically attached to pedicel, not inflated in fruit, (6–)8–14(–15) mm, sparsely glandular-pilose, lobes subequal, apex appearing acute due to their continuity with ribs, ribs green to purplish, intercostal areas whitish. |
Capsules | 6–10(–13) mm. |
(2.5–)3–6.5 mm. |
Anthers | included, ciliate. |
(distal pair) nearly exserted, glabrous or glabrate. |
Stigmas | included, lobes unequal, abaxial 1.5 times adaxial. |
exserted, lobes unequal, abaxial 10–20 times adaxial. |
2n | = 16. |
= 18. |
Diplacus layneae |
Diplacus douglasii |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering Feb–Apr(–May). |
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. | Gentle to moderately steep slopes, upper banks of small creeks and ditches. |
Elevation | (100–)400–2400 m. ((300–)1300–7900 ft.) | 50–1200 m. (200–3900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; OR
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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.) |
Diplacus douglasii occurs in southwestern Oregon and the northern two-thirds of California. Diplacus douglasii is distinct in the complete or nearly complete lack of abaxial corolla lobes. Diplacus brandegeei, D. congdonii, D. kelloggii, and D. traskiae, the other species of sect. Cleisanthus, also show a distinct tendency toward reduction of the abaxial corolla lobes, and all species of the group except D. brandegeei produce markedly elongate corolla tubes. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 437. | FNA vol. 17, p. 445. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
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Synonyms | Eunanus layneae, Mimulus brachiatus, M. layneae | Eunanus douglasii, Mimulus cleistogamus, M. douglasii |
Name authority | (Greene) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) | (Bentham) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 32. (2012) |
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