Erythranthe inconspicua |
Erythranthe hardhamiae |
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small-flower monkeyflower |
Hardham's monkeyflower, Santa Lucia 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 from basal nodes, (2–)3–13 cm, glabrous or minutely puberulent. |
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 not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3-veined (in broader ones), linear to oblanceolate, 2–12 × 1–5 mm, base attenuate, margins entire, sometimes toothed, apex acute, surfaces glabrous or minutely puberulent. |
Flowers | plesiogamous, 1–12, from proximal to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1–12, from distal or 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, abaxial limb with 2 yellow palate ridges, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, 5–10 mm, exserted 2–5 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 7–13 mm, lobes notched, abaxial limb sparsely bearded. |
Fruiting pedicels | 5–15 mm, glabrous. |
ascending to often spreading horizontally, 10–60 mm. |
Fruiting calyces | campanulate, 6–9 mm, margins subtruncate, glabrous, lobes reduced, subequal. |
becoming reddish, sometimes red-spotted, campanulate to cylindric, 4–6 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, glabrous or minutely puberulent, ribs weak, lobes pronounced, erect, margins glabrous. |
Capsules | included, 4–9 mm. |
included, 4–5 mm. |
Anthers | included, minutely villous-hirsute. |
included or slightly exserted, glabrous. |
Stigmas | equal in length to corolla tube or exserted. |
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Erythranthe inconspicua |
Erythranthe hardhamiae |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Jul). | Flowering Mar–Apr. |
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. | Sandy soils near sandstone outcrops and chaparral. |
Elevation | 200–2100 m. (700–6900 ft.) | 300–800 m. (1000–2600 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA |
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 hardhamiae is endemic to the central coast region in Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties. The species was previously included in E. palmeri but can be distinguished by having a wider limb (16–25 mm) than E. palmeri (8–15 mm) and pale pink flowers with a broad yellow palate and orifice. In contrast, E. palmeri has deep pink flowers with two yellow ridges on the palate. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 382. | FNA vol. 17, p. 388. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus inconspicuus | |
Name authority | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 34. (2012) | N. S. Fraga: Aliso 30: 64, figs. 23–25. (2012) |
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