Erythranthe acutidens |
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Kings River monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, fibrous-rooted. |
Stems | erect to ascending-erect, simple or diffusely branched, 4-angled, 7–20 cm, glabrous. |
Leaves | basal and cauline; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3–5 veined, ovate to broadly ovate, 10–20 × 7–11 mm, base rounded to truncate, margins serrate-denticulate, apex acute, surfaces glabrous. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 2–20, from proximal to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
Corollas | pale pink to rose purple, throat yellow or deep pink externally with 2 yellow spots below abaxial limb, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric-funnelform, 9–12 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 9–12 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divergent-arcuate, sometimes becoming deflexed, 10–23 mm, longer than subtending leaves, glabrous. |
Fruiting calyces | campanulate, 7–9 mm, margins subtruncate, glabrous, lobes reduced, subequal. |
Capsules | included, (4–)5–10 mm. |
Anthers | included, minutely villous-hirsute. |
Erythranthe acutidens |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Grassy slopes, sandy terraces, marshy places, lakeshores, creek sides, seep edges, shaded canyon slopes, roadcuts and roadsides, woodlands of Pseudotsuga menziesii-Quercus chrysolepis, oak-gray pine, or interior live oak. |
Elevation | 200–2000 m. (700–6600 ft.) |
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CA
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Discussion | Mimulus acutidens Greene is heterotypic with the South American M. acutidens Reiche, which is a later homonym. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 383. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus acutidens, M. inconspicuus var. acutidens |
Name authority | (Greene) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 34. (2012) |
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