Diplacus rattanii |
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Rattan's monkeyflower |
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Habit | Herbs, annual. |
Stems | erect, 10–180(–230) mm, densely glandular-pubescent and viscid. |
Leaves | basal and cauline, basal in rosette, cauline gradually reduced distally; petiole absent; blade obovate to narrowly elliptic, 3–46(–70) × 1–20(–25) mm, margins entire or crenate, plane, apex rounded or obtuse, surfaces: proximals glabrate, distals glandular-pubescent and viscid. |
Pedicels | 1–3(–6) mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 1 per node, chasmogamous. |
Styles | eglandular-puberulent. |
Corollas | pink to magenta, throat floor with 3 dark purple lines meeting abaxial lip lobes, palate ridges yellow, tube-throat 7–10 mm, limb 4–7 mm diam., not bilabiate. |
Calyces | symmetrically attached to pedicels, inflated in fruit, 5–10 mm, glandular-pubescent and viscid, lobes subequal, apex obtuse, often apiculate, ribs dark green to purplish, intercostal areas whitish. |
Capsules | 7–11(–12) mm. |
Anthers | nearly exserted, glabrous. |
Stigmas | nearly exserted, lobes unequal, abaxial 5–7 times adaxial. |
2n | = 16. |
Diplacus rattanii |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Recently burned or cleared areas, sandhills, sandstone outcrops, sandy gravel and loam, decomposed granite, serpentine-derived soils, open chaparral, chaparral margins, open yellow pine-manzanita woodlands. |
Elevation | 300–1300 m. (1000–4300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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Discussion | Diplacus rattanii occurs mostly in near-coastal localities from Glenn and Lake counties south to Ventura County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 432. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
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Synonyms | Mimulus rattanii, M. rattanii subsp. decurtatus |
Name authority | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) |
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