Diplacus linearis

(Bentham) Greene

Pittonia 2: 156. 1890.

Common names: Monterey monkeyflower
Endemic
Basionym: Mimulus linearis Bentham Scroph. Ind., 27. 1835
Synonyms: Diplacus fasciculatus (Pennell) McMinn D. longiflorus var. linearis (Bentham) McMinn M. bifidus subsp. fasciculatus Pennell M. glutinosus var. linearis (Bentham) A. Gray M. longiflorus var. linearis (Bentham) A. L. Grant
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 449. Mentioned on page 428.

Subshrubs. Stems erect, 300–800 (–1200) mm, minutely hirtellous to hirsutulous with slightly deflexed, eglandular hairs. Leaves cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent; blade narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate or narrowly elliptic-oblong, 12–37 × 3–9 mm, margins entire, serrulate, or mucronulate, plane or revolute, apex usually obtuse to rounded, surfaces glabrous. Pedicels 3–10 mm in fruit. Flowers (1 or) 2 per node, chasmogamous. Calyces not inflated in fruit, 20–28 mm, glabrous, tube slightly dilated distally, lobes unequal to subequal, apex acute. Corollas yellow-orange to dull orange, not spotted or striped, palate ridges yellow, tube-throat 35–45 mm, limb 20–25 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes oblong, each apically incised 1/4–1/2 length, appearing 2-lobed. Anthers included, glabrous. Styles minutely glandular. Stigmas included, lobes equal. Capsules 18–30 mm. 2n = 20.


Phenology: Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat: Dry hillsides, rock outcrops.
Elevation: 100–300 m.

Discussion

The coastal Diplacus linearis (as Mimulus bifidus subsp. fasciculatus) was allied by F. W. Pennell (1947) with the Sierran D. grandiflorus (as M. bifidus subsp. typicus) as a narrower-leaved and smaller-flowered subspecies; see discussion concerning its distribution under 40. D. grandiflorus. The two were considered synonymous by D. M. Thompson (2005). They are distinct in geography, ecology, and morphology.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Diplacus linearis"
acute +, usually obtuse +  and rounded +
Guy L. Nesom +  and Melissa C. Tulig +
(Bentham) Greene +
Mimulus linearis +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (3.7 cm37 mm <br />0.037 m <br />) +
narrowly elliptic;narrowly lanceolate or narrowly elliptic-oblong +
not +, leathery +  and not fleshy +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
not inflated +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (2.8 cm28 mm <br />0.028 m <br />) +
1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
Monterey monkeyflower +
not +, rarely radially symmetric +  and weakly strongly bilabiate +
yellow-orange;dull orange not spotted or striped +
salverform;rotate +
100–300 m. +
hairy +  and glabrous +
reflexed;nodding;erect +
reduced +
compressed;asymmetrically ovoid;lanceoloid or nearly cylindric +
Dry hillsides, rock outcrops. +
alternate +, opposite +, rosulate +  and subrosulate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
equal-sized +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
2-lobed;incised;oblong +
unequal +  and subequal +
palmate +  and subpinnate +
revolute +, plane +, mucronulate +  and serrulate +
wing-angled +  and angled +
basal +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
orthotropous +  and anatropous +
rarely more or less equal to or slightly longer +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
Flowering Apr–Jun. +
yellow +  and olive green or dark-brown +
flattened +, ovoid +  and oblong +
80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br /> (120 cm1,200 mm <br />1.2 m <br />) +
deciduous +
minutely hirtellous +  and hirsutulous +
30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> (80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br />) +
Diplacus fasciculatus +, D. longiflorus var. linearis +, M. bifidus subsp. fasciculatus +, M. glutinosus var. linearis +  and M. longiflorus var. linearis +
Diplacus linearis +
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 +