Diplacus layneae |
Diplacus torreyi |
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Layne's monkeyflower |
Torrey's monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, herbage usually drying dark. | Herbs, annual, herbage not drying dark. |
Stems | erect, 30–160(–300) mm, nodes 3–6, glandular-puberulent to glandular-pubescent, hairs 0.2–0.8 mm. |
erect, (20–)40–380(–530) mm, glandular-puberulent to 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 cauline, gradually reduced distally; petiole poorly delimited; blade elliptic or oblanceolate, (3–)6–40(–48) × (0.5–)1–14(–19) mm, margins entire, plane, apex rounded, surfaces: proximals glabrate, distals glandular-puberulent or glandular-pubescent. |
Pedicels | 2–4(–5) mm in fruit. |
1–3(–6) 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. |
glandular-puberulent. |
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. |
tube magenta, limb magenta to pale rose, rarely nearly white, abaxial lip usually paler, palate ridges yellow, tube-throat (8–)9–18(–20) mm, limb 8–20 mm diam., weakly bilabiate. |
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, not inflated in fruit, (2–)5–10(–12) mm, glandular-puberulent to glandular-pubescent, lobes shallowly triangular to broadly ovate, subequal, apex obtuse, rarely apiculate, ribs purplish. |
Capsules | 6–10(–13) mm. |
(5–)6–11(–13) mm. |
Anthers | included, ciliate. |
included, sometimes slightly ciliate. |
Stigmas | included, lobes unequal, abaxial 1.5 times adaxial. |
included, lobes unequal, abaxial 2 times adaxial. |
2n | = 16. |
= 20. |
Diplacus layneae |
Diplacus torreyi |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | 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. | Moist sand in channel beds and flood plains, exposed slopes along streams, roadside ditches, serpentine slopes, volcanic outcrop margins, gravelly openings, rocky serpentine soils, ridges in yellow pine and Jeffrey pine forests, openings in yellow pine, lodgepole pine, red fir, and mixed conifer woodlands, chaparral edges, meadows, recent burns, roadsides, road banks. |
Elevation | (100–)400–2400 m. ((300–)1300–7900 ft.) | (100–)700–2000(–2400) m. ((300–)2300–6600(–7900) ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA
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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 torreyi occurs from Lassen and Shasta counties to Fresno County in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range. Diplacus torreyi is recognized by its erect, usually single-stemmed habit (usually with the proximal one or two internodes elongate), obovate to oblanceolate leaf blades, calyces with membranous walls, thin ribs, and shallowly triangular to broadly ovate lobes, and weakly bilabiate corollas with relatively narrower limbs, usually drying a light color with yellow palate ridges. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 437. | FNA vol. 17, p. 443. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
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Synonyms | Eunanus layneae, Mimulus brachiatus, M. layneae | Mimulus torreyi |
Name authority | (Greene) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 32. (2012) |
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