Erythranthe inconspicua |
Erythranthe filicaulis |
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small-flower monkeyflower |
Hetch Hetchy monkey-flower, slender-stem monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, fibrous-rooted. | Annuals, taprooted. |
Stems | erect to ascending, simple or branched from base, 4-angled, 3–16 cm, glabrous. |
erect, simple or branched at basal nodes, 4–30 cm, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped. |
Leaves | basal and cauline; petiole: proximals 1–5 mm, mid cauline and distals 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, broadly elliptic to ovate or broadly ovate, 6–20 × 6–12 mm, base rounded to cordate, margins subentire to denticulate, apex obtuse to acute or acuminate, surfaces sparsely villous. |
cauline, basal usually not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade 1-veined or palmately 3-veined, linear to oblanceolate, 6–15 × (1–)2–3 mm, base attenuate, margins entire to remotely mucronulate, teeth 1–3 per side, apex acute, surfaces densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped. |
Flowers | plesiogamous, 1–12, from proximal to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 2–8, from medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | pale pink to rose pink or purple to magenta, throat sometimes yellow, lobes sometimes yellowish with pale rose spots, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric, 5–9 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 5–6 mm. |
pink to purple, throat dark red-purple, palate ridges yellow, bilaterally or nearly radially symmetric, weakly bilabiate or nearly regular; tube-throat cylindric-funnelform, 8–12(–17) mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 10–14 mm, lobes notched, palate villous. |
Fruiting pedicels | 5–15 mm, glabrous. |
9–30 mm, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped. |
Fruiting calyces | campanulate, 6–9 mm, margins subtruncate, glabrous, lobes reduced, subequal. |
reddish brown-spotted, strongly angled, cylindric-campanulate, 7–9 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, densely glandular-puberulent, hairs 0.05–0.1 mm, gland-tipped, ribs corky, lobes pronounced, spreading. |
Capsules | included, 4–9 mm. |
included, 5–7 mm. |
Anthers | included, minutely villous-hirsute. |
included, hirtellous. |
2n | = 16. |
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Erythranthe inconspicua |
Erythranthe filicaulis |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Jul). | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Steep, north- or northwest-facing slopes, canyon walls, moist talus, granitic sand on outcrops, moist gravelly open spots, sandy lakeshores, hillside streams or seeps, riparian woodlands, grassy slopes, gray pine, yellow pine, yellow pine-Kellogg oak, chaparral, Pseudotsuga-Pinus-Cornus, canyon live oak woodlands. | Moist open areas on gentle slopes, meadows, roadsides, gravelly soils. |
Elevation | 200–2100 m. (700–6900 ft.) | 800–1800 m. (2600–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA
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Discussion | Erythranthe inconspicua occurs in Sierran counties from Kern north to El Dorado and then is apparently disjunct further northward to Butte County. A record from Los Angeles County (Bigelow s.n., 14 May 1854, the type of the species) is probably mislabeled, as other collections by Bigelow on the same day are from Calaveras County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe filicaulis is known only for certain from Mariposa and Tuolumne counties. Kappler 1691 (UCLA) from Madera County also may be this species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 382. | FNA vol. 17, p. 391. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus inconspicuus | Mimulus filicaulis, M. biolettii |
Name authority | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 34. (2012) | (S. Watson) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 36. (2012) |
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