Diplacus grandiflorus

Groenland

Rev. Hort. 6: 402, fig. 136. 1857.

Common names: Sierra bush monkeyflower
Endemic
Synonyms: Diplacus glutinosus var. grandiflorus Lindley & Paxton D. longiflorus var. grandiflorus (Groenland) Jepson Mimulus aurantiacus var. grandiflorus (Lindley & Paxton) D. M. Thompson M. bifidus Pennell
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 448. Mentioned on page 428, 449.

Subshrubs. Stems erect, 400–700 mm, minutely hirtellous to hirsutulous with slightly deflexed, eglandular hairs. Leaves cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent; blade elliptic or oblongelliptic to elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, (10–) 20–55 × 4–17 mm, margins entire, serrulate, or mucronulate, plane or revolute, apex obtuse or rounded to acute, surfaces glabrous. Pedicels 5–12 mm in fruit. Flowers 2 per node, chasmogamous. Calyces not inflated in fruit, 20–30 mm, glabrous except for lobe apices, tube slightly dilated distally, lobes subequal, apex acute. Corollas pale-yellow or nearly white to pale orange or light yellow-orange, not spotted or striped, palate ridges yellow to golden yellow, tube-throat 35–45 mm, limb 30–45 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes each apically incised 1/4–1/2 length, appearing 2-lobed. Anthers included, glabrous. Styles sparsely minutely glandular. Stigmas included, lobes equal. Capsules 15–25 mm. 2n = 20.


Phenology: Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat: Rock walls, dry rocky soils.
Elevation: 100–1600 m.

Discussion

Diplacus grandiflorus (central Sierran) and D. linearis (coastal) are remarkably similar; it seems likely that they are vicariants. Leaves of D. linearis are narrower, and the nodes tend to be considerably more crowded. Corollas of D. linearis have narrower limbs, and both pairs of anthers and the stigma are at the same level and relatively deeply included. In D. grandiflorus, the anther pairs are separated, and the stigma is above the distal anther pair at or near the throat opening.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Diplacus grandiflorus"
acute +  and rounded +
Guy L. Nesom +  and Melissa C. Tulig +
Groenland +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (5.5 cm55 mm <br />0.055 m <br />) +
oblongelliptic;elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate +
not +, leathery +  and not fleshy +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br />) +
not inflated +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
Sierra bush monkeyflower +
not +, rarely radially symmetric +  and weakly strongly bilabiate +
nearly white;pale orange or light yellow-orange not spotted or striped +
salverform;rotate +
100–1600 m. +
hairy +  and glabrous +
reflexed;nodding;erect +
reduced +
compressed;asymmetrically ovoid;lanceoloid or nearly cylindric +
Rock walls, dry rocky soils. +
alternate +, opposite +, rosulate +  and subrosulate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
equal-sized +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br />) +
2-lobed;incised +
subequal +
palmate +  and subpinnate +
revolute +, plane +, mucronulate +  and serrulate +
wing-angled +  and angled +
basal +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
orthotropous +  and anatropous +
yellow +  and golden yellow +
rarely more or less equal to or slightly longer +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
Flowering Apr–Jun. +
yellow +  and olive green or dark-brown +
flattened +, ovoid +  and oblong +
deciduous +
minutely hirtellous +  and hirsutulous +
40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br /> (70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br />) +
Diplacus glutinosus var. grandiflorus +, D. longiflorus var. grandiflorus +, Mimulus aurantiacus var. grandiflorus +  and M. bifidus +
Diplacus grandiflorus +
Diplacus +
species +
3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br /> (4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br />) +
dilated +
dehiscent +, indehiscent +  and loculicidal +
perennial +  and annual +
10 +, 9 +  and 8 +