Diplacus nanus |
Diplacus linearis |
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dwarf monkey flower, dwarf purple monkey-flower, purple monkeyflower |
chaparral bush monkeyflower, Monterey monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual. | Subshrubs. |
Stems | erect, 30–120 mm, minutely glandular-puberulent. |
erect, 300–800(–1200) mm, minutely hirtellous to hirsutulous with slightly deflexed, eglandular hairs. |
Leaves | basal and cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent; blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, ovate, obovate, or elliptic-lanceolate, (1–)3–30(–50) × (0.4–)0.7–8(–20) mm, margins entire, plane, apex rounded or obtuse, surfaces minutely glandular-puberulent. |
cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent; blade narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate or narrowly elliptic-oblong, 12–37 × 3–9 mm, margins entire, serrulate, or mucronulate, plane or revolute, apex usually obtuse to rounded, surfaces glabrous. |
Pedicels | 1–3 mm in fruit. |
3–10 mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous. |
(1 or)2 per node, chasmogamous. |
Styles | glandular-puberulent or glandular-pubescent. |
minutely glandular. |
Corollas | magenta to purplish, dark line often extending onto each abaxial lip lobe from throat, palate ridges yellow with red-purple speckling and border, throat floor villous with hairs extending onto abaxial lip, tube 1.1–1.9 mm diam. at filament insertion, tube-throat 11–15 mm, limb 8–14 mm diam., usually, rarely not, bilabiate. |
yellow-orange to dull orange, not spotted or striped, palate ridges yellow, tube-throat 35–45 mm, limb 20–25 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes oblong, each apically incised 1/4–1/2 length, appearing 2-lobed. |
Calyces | symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, 6–9 mm, minutely glandular-puberulent, lobes subequal, apex acute-apiculate, acuminate, or attenuate, ribs dark green or reddish, intercostal areas whitish. |
not inflated in fruit, 20–28 mm, glabrous, tube slightly dilated distally, lobes unequal to subequal, apex acute. |
Capsules | 8–12 mm. |
18–30 mm. |
Anthers | included or exserted, ciliate. |
included, glabrous. |
Stigmas | exserted, lobes equal. |
included, lobes equal. |
2n | = 16. |
= 20. |
Diplacus nanus |
Diplacus linearis |
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Phenology | Flowering (Apr–)May–Jul. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Openings in sagebrush, disturbed slopes, granite outcrops. | Dry hillsides, rock outcrops. |
Elevation | (300–)1100–2300(–2900) m. [(1000–)3600–7500(–9500) ft.] | 100–300 m. [300–1000 ft.] |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; WA; WY
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CA |
Discussion | Diplacus nanus is broadly distributed through northern California, southern Idaho, and eastern Oregon, with stations in Ravalli County, Montana, and Park County, Wyoming, and scattered localities in Washington. Diplacus nanus is generally recognized by its strongly bilabiate corollas with purplish (not yellow) tubes and two dark purple patches along the sides of the throats. The glandular-puberulent vestiture of D. nanus contrasts with the glandular-pubescent and viscid-villous vestiture (with hairs much longer) of D. mephiticus. W. L. Ezell (1971) noted that in the Siskiyou Mountains of Josephine County, Oregon, and adjacent Siskiyou and Trinity counties, California, corollas of Diplacus nanus do not have clearly differentiated abaxial and adaxial lips. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
The coastal Diplacus linearis (as Mimulus bifidus subsp. fasciculatus) was allied by F. W. Pennell (1947) with the Sierran D. grandiflorus (as M. bifidus subsp. typicus) as a narrower-leaved and smaller-flowered subspecies; see discussion concerning its distribution under 40. D. grandiflorus. The two were considered synonymous by D. M. Thompson (2005). They are distinct in geography, ecology, and morphology. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 440. | FNA vol. 17, p. 449. |
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Synonyms | Mimulus nanus, M. tolmiei | Mimulus linearis, D. fasciculatus, D. longiflorus var. linearis, M. bifidus subsp. fasciculatus, M. glutinosus var. linearis, M. longiflorus var. linearis |
Name authority | (Hooker & Arnott) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) | (Bentham) Greene: Pittonia 2: 156. (1890) |
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