Erythranthe laciniata |
Erythranthe barbata |
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cut-leaf monkeyflower |
bearded monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, slender-taprooted or fibrous-rooted. | Annuals, taprooted. |
Stems | erect, simple or branched from base, 3–38 cm, glabrous or sparsely hirtellous, finely villosulous-glandular above nodes. |
erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 2–14.5 cm, sparsely glandular-pubescent, internodes elongate, distinct. |
Leaves | cauline, basal deciduous by flowering; petiole 1–35 mm, distals 0 mm; blade 1-veined or palmately 3-veined, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, oblanceolate, or oblong, 3–55 mm, longer than wide, base attenuate, margins narrowly pinnately lobed or dissected, sometimes merely shallowly toothed, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glabrate. |
cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade 1-veined or palmately 3-veined (in broader ones), linear to lanceolate, 5–15 × 0.5–2 mm, base attenuate, margins entire, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces sparsely glandular-pubescent. |
Flowers | plesiogamous, 2–8, from medial to distal nodes, chasmogamous, sometimes cleistogamous. |
herkogamous, 1–30, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow, throat red-spotted, abaxial limb of larger usually with 1 large red splotch, bilaterally symmetric, ± bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, 4–6 mm, exserted 1–2 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 5–6 mm. |
bicolored (abaxial limb yellow with red spots, adaxial maroon-purple) or yellow, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric, (5–)8–15 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 6–15 mm, lateral lobes 2-fid, palate bearded. |
Fruiting pedicels | nodding 30–140º at calyx base, 5–25 mm. |
ascending to often spreading horizontally, (5–)9–25 mm. |
Fruiting calyces | red-spotted, cylindric-campanulate, inflated, sagittally compressed, 8–10 mm, glabrate, throat closing, lobes ca. equal size or adaxial slightly longer. |
sometimes red-dotted on ribs, campanulate, 3–6 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, glabrous, sparsely glandular-pubescent, ribs weak, lobes pronounced, erect, margins glabrous. |
Capsules | included, stipitate, 5–7 mm. |
included or equal to calyx, 3–5 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 28. |
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Erythranthe laciniata |
Erythranthe barbata |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul(–Aug). | Flowering May–Aug. |
Habitat | Cracks, depressions, and seeps in granite outcrops, ledges, talus and scree, rocky streamsides, rocky slopes, roadsides, intermittent drainages. | Open areas in pine forests, edges of meadows and ephemeral streams. |
Elevation | 900–2300(–3300) m. (3000–7500(–10800) ft.) | 1800–3400 m. (5900–11200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA
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Discussion | Erythranthe laciniata is known from Amador County south to Kern County. As in Erythranthe nasuta, the adaxial calyx lobe in E. laciniata tends to be narrowly lanceolate to triangular (noselike) and perceptibly falcate, curving slightly upward both in flower and in fruit. The adaxial lobe is not so prominently protruding as it often is in E. nasuta. Corolla size is variable in Erythranthe laciniata, but the size of those with an open throat (versus much reduced in size and apparently cleistogamous) is not strongly correlated with size of the individual plant, and all on one plant are about the same size (compare with E. nasuta). Corollas on some plants, however, are all or nearly all greatly reduced and apparently cleistogamous. Fertilization in even the larger corollas apparently is autogamous; the anther pairs are slightly separated or equal in level, and the stigma is in the middle of the anthers or at the level of the adaxial pair. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe barbata previously has been placed in synonymy with E. montioides but differs from it in having each corolla lobe deeply notched and a consistently bearded palate. In E. montioides, each corolla lobe is entire or shallowly notched, and the palate is glabrous or sparsely bearded. Erythranthe barbata is most abundant in Tulare County but also occurs in immediately adjacent Inyo and Kern counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 419. | FNA vol. 17, p. 386. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus laciniatus, M. eisenii | Mimulus barbatus, M. deflexus |
Name authority | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 44. (2012) | (Greene) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) |
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