Erythranthe norrisii |
Erythranthe filicifolia |
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Kaweah monkeyflower, Norris' monkeyflower |
fern-leaf monkeyflower |
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Habit | Annuals, fibrous-rooted or filiform-taprooted. | Annuals, fibrous-rooted. |
Stems | ascending to erect-ascending, geniculate at nodes, usually branched from proximal nodes, 2–15(–25) cm, villous-glandular. |
erect or slightly ascending from base, sometimes purplish, simple or few-branched from proximal nodes, 3–38 cm, glabrous. |
Leaves | basal and cauline; petiole 5–10(–15) mm; blade palmately 3–5-veined, sometimes with 1–3 distal vein pairs diverging pinnately, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 20–35 × 10–20 mm, base usually attenuate, margins subentire to distally denticulate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces villous-glandular. |
basal and cauline; petiole (proximal and proximal to mid cauline), distal bracteate or absent, ovate, margins entire; blade: divisions 1-veined, oblong-lanceolate to ovate in outline, 3–68 mm, slightly thickened, base (at proximalmost division) truncate, margins (of divisions) entire, bipinnately dissected, ca. 5–12(–15) primary divisions on each side, ultimate division nearly linear, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous. |
Flowers | herkogamous, 1–5, from medial to distal nodes. |
plesiogamous, 4–10(–12), on foreshortened distal nodes, usually clustered, chasmogamous, sometimes cleistogamous. |
Styles | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
Corollas | yellow, base of each lobe with a prominent maroon splotch, abaxial limb with white patch at 2 sinus bases, weakly bilaterally or radially symmetric, weakly bilabiate or regular; tube-throat cylindric-funnelform, 12–16 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 15–30 mm, lobes oblong-obovate to orbicular-obovate, apex rounded-truncate. |
yellow, proximal lip sometimes red-splotched, palate ridges yellow, bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric-funnelform, 4–8 mm, exserted 0–2 mm beyond calyx margin or not; palate ridges densely villous. |
Fruiting pedicels | 20–35(–50) mm, villous-glandular. |
6–14 mm, glabrous. |
Fruiting calyces | red-dotted, campanulate, weakly inflated, 4–6 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, villous-glandular, ribs rounded-thickened, lobes pronounced, erect, often incurved, linear-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, apex rounded to blunt. |
urceolate to urceolate-campanulate, inflated, sagittally compressed, 8–11 mm, glabrous, throat closing. |
Capsules | usually slightly exserted, 4–6 mm. |
included, 3–8 mm. |
Anthers | included, glabrous. |
included, glabrous. |
2n | = 32. |
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Erythranthe norrisii |
Erythranthe filicifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May. | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Sep). |
Habitat | Steep marble outcrops in soil pockets, moss covered marble and quartzite ledges, cracks, fractures, weathered faces, chamise chaparral or blue oak woodlands. | Slow-draining, ephemeral seeps on exfoliating granite slabs, over basalt. |
Elevation | 300–1300 m. (1000–4300 ft.) | 300–1600 m. (1000–5200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA |
Discussion | Erythranthe norrisii is known only from the Kaweah River drainage; most populations are in Sequoia National Park in Tulare County. The species is characterized by its short-petiolate leaves with attenuate bases, very large corollas with red splotches at the base of each lobe and two white patches on the abaxial limb, and very short, purple-dotted calyces with rounded-thickened ribs and linear-oblong lobes incurved in fruit. The capsules often are slightly exserted. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Erythranthe filicifolia is known only from localities in Butte and Plumas counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 405. | FNA vol. 17, p. 418. |
Parent taxa | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe | Phrymaceae > Erythranthe |
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Synonyms | Mimulus norrisii | Mimulus filicifolius |
Name authority | (Heckard & Shevock) G. L. Nesom: Phytoneuron 2012-39: 39. (2012) | (Sexton: K. G. Ferris & Schoenig) G. L. Nesom, Phytoneuron 2013-80: 1. (2013) |
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