Erythranthe dentata |
Erythranthe corallina |
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coast monkeyflower, coastal monkey-flower, tooth-leaf monkey-flower |
coralline monkeyflower |
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Habit | Perennials, rhizomatous. | Perennials, rhizomatous, rhizomes often forming a mass, usually branching, filiform. |
Stems | erect to erect-ascending, simple or few-branched, 15–40 cm, coarsely pilose to hirsute-pilose, glabrescent, internodes evident. |
usually erect to ascending-erect, few-branched, 6–25(–38) cm, moderately hirsute to hirtellous, hairs deflexed. |
Leaves | cauline; petiole (0–)2–12 mm, not winged, distally sometimes sessile, subclasping; blade pinnately veined, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, 25–75 mm, thick, base rounded to cuneate, margins coarsely dentate to serrate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces coarsely pilose to hirsute-pilose, glabrescent. |
basal and cauline, becoming larger distally or even-sized; petiole 0 mm or proximals 1–15 mm; blade palmately 5-veined, ovate to broadly ovate, 15–45 mm, base mostly truncate to shallowly cordate, margins sharply dentate-serrate, apex obtuse, surfaces hirtellous to softly hirsute, hairs ascending, straight, dull gray, sharp-pointed, thick-walled, eglandular. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–5, from distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1–3(–6), commonly solitary or from distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
sparsely hirtellous. |
Corollas | yellow, palate and throat brown to reddish brown-spotted, bilaterally symmetric, ± bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, 15–26 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; throat open, palate villous, abaxial ridges low. |
yellow, red-spotted, bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate; tube-throat narrowly funnelform to broadly cylindric, 13–20 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 12–22 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | 12–25(–50) mm. |
(10–)25–75 mm, glabrous or puberulent proximally, hairs stipitate-glandular. |
Fruiting calyces | narrowly campanulate, not or weakly inflated, 9–14 mm, villous-hirsute on ribs. |
sometimes purple-spotted, broadly cylindric-campanulate, inflated, sagittally compressed, 11–15 mm, glabrous, throat not closing, proximal lobe pair slightly upcurving. |
Capsules | included, 8–9 mm. |
included, stipitate, 7–10 mm. |
Anthers | included, short villous-hirsute. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 48, 56. |
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Erythranthe dentata |
Erythranthe corallina |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering (May–)Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Stream banks. | Creek banks, moraine water courses, bogs, marshes, wet meadows, roadside ditches. |
Elevation | 20–400 m. (100–1300 ft.) | (1400–)1700–2700(–3000) m. ((4600–)5600–8900(–9800) ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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CA; NV |
Discussion | Erythranthe dentata is distinctive and rarely misidentified. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe corallina is a morphologically consistent entity that occurs only in the Sierra Nevada of California and adjacent Nevada (Washoe County and Carson City). Its chromosome number is reported as 2n = 48 and 56, compared to 2n = 28 and 56 in E. tilingii; identities of the E. corallina vouchers should be rechecked and additional counts made, since the occurrence of such wide dysploidy seems unlikely. Compared to the leaf blades of E. tilingii in the strict sense, those of E. corallina are relatively broader (broadly ovate to orbicular-ovate), the plants generally taller, and long-pedicellate flowers occasionally are produced from mid stem or even proximal nodes. The hirsutulous to hirsute vestiture of eglandular hairs on both leaf surfaces is a reliably diagnostic feature and usually easily observed with a 10× lens. Some plants of Erythranthe corallina from San Bernardino County, California, produce decumbent-ascending stems (4–10 cm) and ovate-triangular leaves (blade 5–10 × 3–6 mm), but the dense system of filiform rhizomes, flowers one to three, and hirtellous foliar vestiture serve to identify them. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 405. | FNA vol. 17, p. 410. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus dentatus | Mimulus corallinus, M. minusculus, M. tilingii var. corallinus |
Name authority | (Nuttall ex Bentham) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 41. (2012) | (Greene) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 44. (2012) |
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