Flora of North America species comparison

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Diplacus rattanii

Diplacus puniceus

Rattan's monkeyflower

red bush monkeyflower, sticky monkeyflower
Habit Herbs, annual. Subshrubs or shrubs.
Stems

erect, 10–180(–230) mm, densely glandular-pubescent and viscid.

erect to ascending-erect or sprawling, 200–1500(–2000) mm, glabrous.
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.

cauline, relatively even-sized;

petiole absent;

blade linear-oblong or narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 10–60 × 1–11(–15) mm, margins entire or serrate, plane or revolute, apex acute, surfaces glabrous.
Pedicels

1–3(–6) mm in fruit.

5–25 mm in fruit.
Flowers

1 per node, chasmogamous.

2(–4) per node, chasmogamous.
Styles

eglandular-puberulent.

minutely glandular.
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.

deep red, orange-red, or orange to maroon, throat sometimes orangish, palate ridges red, rarely yellow, tube-throat 27–35 mm, limb 15–23 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes oblong, apex truncate, sometimes notched.
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.

not inflated in fruit, 17–25 mm, glabrous, lobes unequal, apex acute, ribs green, intercostal areas light green.
Capsules

7–11(–12) mm.

14–22 mm.
Anthers

nearly exserted, glabrous.

(distal pair) exserted, glabrous.
Stigmas

nearly exserted, lobes unequal, abaxial 5–7 times adaxial.

exserted, lobes equal.
2n

= 16.

= 20.

Diplacus rattanii

Diplacus puniceus
Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul. Flowering Jan–Jul(–Oct).
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. Rocky hillsides, boulders, moist hillsides, canyons, wash bottoms, roadsides, chaparral.
Elevation 300–1300 m. (1000–4300 ft.) (20–)100–700 m. ((100–)300–2300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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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.)

Diplacus puniceus occurs in southwestern California and northeastern Baja California. Hybrids are common with D. longiflorus and have been called D. ×australis.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 432. FNA vol. 17, p. 452.
Parent taxa Phrymaceae > Diplacus Phrymaceae > Diplacus
Sibling taxa
D. angustatus, D. aridus, D. aurantiacus, D. bicolor, D. bigelovii, D. bolanderi, D. brandegeei, D. brevipes, D. calycinus, D. cascadensis, D. clevelandii, D. clivicola, D. compactus, D. congdonii, D. constrictus, D. cusickii, D. cusickioides, D. deschutesensis, D. douglasii, D. fremontii, D. grandiflorus, D. graniticola, D. jepsonii, D. johnstonii, D. kelloggii, D. layneae, D. leptaleus, D. linearis, D. longiflorus, D. mephiticus, D. mohavensis, D. nanus, D. ovatus, D. parryi, D. parviflorus, D. pictus, D. pulchellus, D. puniceus, D. pygmaeus, D. rupicola, D. rutilus, D. thompsonii, D. torreyi, D. traskiae, D. tricolor, D. vandenbergensis, D. viscidus
D. angustatus, D. aridus, D. aurantiacus, D. bicolor, D. bigelovii, D. bolanderi, D. brandegeei, D. brevipes, D. calycinus, D. cascadensis, D. clevelandii, D. clivicola, D. compactus, D. congdonii, D. constrictus, D. cusickii, D. cusickioides, D. deschutesensis, D. douglasii, D. fremontii, D. grandiflorus, D. graniticola, D. jepsonii, D. johnstonii, D. kelloggii, D. layneae, D. leptaleus, D. linearis, D. longiflorus, D. mephiticus, D. mohavensis, D. nanus, D. ovatus, D. parryi, D. parviflorus, D. pictus, D. pulchellus, D. pygmaeus, D. rattanii, D. rupicola, D. rutilus, D. thompsonii, D. torreyi, D. traskiae, D. tricolor, D. vandenbergensis, D. viscidus
Synonyms Mimulus rattanii, M. rattanii subsp. decurtatus D. glutinosus var. puniceus, Mimulus aurantiacus var. puniceus, M. glutinosus var. puniceus, M. puniceus
Name authority (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 29. (2012) Nuttall: Ann. Nat. Hist. 1: 137. (1838) — (as punicea)
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