Diplacus rupicola |
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Death Valley monkeyflower, rock midget |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, with woody caudex. |
Stems | erect to ascending, sometimes pendent, 10–170 mm, densely and finely glandular-puberulent. |
Leaves | usually basal rosettes and proximal cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent, base gradually narrowed to broad, petiole-like extension; blade oblanceolate, (10–)18–60(–80) × (1.5–)3–15(–26) mm, margins entire, plane, not ciliate, apex acute, surfaces glandular-puberulent. |
Pedicels | 1–3 mm in fruit. |
Flowers | 1 or 2 per node, chasmogamous. |
Styles | glandular-puberulent. |
Corollas | limb pinkish white to nearly white with a large magenta-purple round or 2-lobed blotch at base of each lobe, throat and palate ridges golden yellow with magenta speckling, palate ridges short-pilose, throat glabrous, tube-throat 17–35 mm, limb 8–21 mm diam., not bilabiate. |
Calyces | asymmetrically attached to pedicel, not inflated in fruit, 8–18 mm, densely glandular-puberulent, lobes unequal, apex acuminate, ribs green, intercostal areas pale green. |
Capsules | 3–8 mm, indehiscent until senescence of pedicel, then opening along both sutures only after wetting. |
Anthers | included, glabrous or slightly puberulent at base. |
Stigmas | included, lobes equal. |
2n | = 16. |
Diplacus rupicola |
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Phenology | Flowering Feb–Jun. |
Habitat | Crevices in limestone cliffs and walls, limestone ridge tops and slopes, wash edges, gravelly slopes, canyon sides. |
Elevation | 300–1800 m. (1000–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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Discussion | Diplacus rupicola is known from Inyo County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 448. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Diplacus |
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Synonyms | Mimulus rupicola |
Name authority | (Coville & A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 27. (2012) |
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