Erythranthe latidens |
Erythranthe palmeri |
|
---|---|---|
broad-tooth monkeyflower |
Palmer's monkeyflower |
|
Habit | Annuals, fibrous-rooted or filiform-taprooted. | Annuals, taprooted. |
Stems | ascending to ascending-erect, geniculate at nodes, usually many-branched from base, 3–10(–25) cm, short stipitate-glandular or sessile-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped. |
erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 4–17 cm, minutely puberulent. |
Leaves | basal and cauline, largest at base or near mid stem, sometimes unreduced in size up to distalmost nodes; petiole 0 mm; cauline blade palmately 3(–5)-veined, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 8–26(–35) mm, base abruptly cuneate to rounded, sometimes subauriculate, margins entire or barely mucronulate to shallowly dentate-mucronulate, teeth or mucronulae 1–3 per side, apex acute to rounded, surfaces short stipitate-glandular or sessile-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped. |
cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade pinnately veined, palmately 3-veined (in broader ones), linear to oblanceolate, (3–)4–17 × 1–4 mm, base attenuate, margins entire, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces minutely puberulent. |
Flowers | plesiogamous, (1–)3–12, from medial to distal nodes. |
herkogamous, 1–36, from distal or medial to distal nodes. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | white to pinkish or flesh colored, rarely yellowish, throat and abaxial lobes red-spotted, nearly radially symmetric; tube-throat cylindric, 5–6(–8) mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb barely widened, lobes broadly obovate, apex rounded. |
pink to purple, abaxial limb with 2 yellow ridges, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, 6–15 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 8–15 mm, lobes deeply notched, abaxial limb sparsely bearded. |
Fruiting pedicels | straight, 11–28 mm, short stipitate-glandular or sessile-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped. |
spreading horizontally, 5–33 mm. |
Fruiting calyces | purplish, prominently 5-angled, tubular-campanulate or ovoid-ellipsoid, strongly inflated, 8–12 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, short stipitate-glandular or sessile-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped, lobes pronounced, erect. |
sometimes red-spotted on ribs, becoming straw colored, cylindric, 4–8 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, glabrous, ribs weak, lobes pronounced, erect, margins ciliate. |
Capsules | included, 6–7 mm. |
included, 4–8 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
Erythranthe latidens |
Erythranthe palmeri |
|
Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Habitat | Drained flats or slopes subject to vernal inundation, depressions in open fields, bare clay soils, vacant lots, roadsides. | Moist areas in openings in pine forest and desert chaparral transitions. |
Elevation | 10–800 m. (0–2600 ft.) | 900–2200 m. (3000–7200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; Mexico (Baja California)
|
CA
|
Discussion | The distinction between Erythranthe latidens and E. inflatula sometimes seems arbitrary, perhaps because of gene exchange where they are sympatric in northwestern California. Erythranthe latidens in Oregon is known only from southern Harney County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe palmeri has been confused with other closely related species, including E. diffusa, E. discolor (pink form), E. rhodopetra, and E. sierrae. It was previously thought to be a widely distributed species because of this taxonomic confusion but now is regarded as endemic to the Transverse Range in the San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 400. | FNA vol. 17, p. 387. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Mimulus inconspicuus var. latidens, M. latidens | Mimulus palmeri |
Name authority | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 38. (2012) | (A. Gray) N. S. Fraga: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. (2012) |
Web links |
|
|