Erythranthe purpurea

(A. L. Grant) N. S. Fraga

Phytoneuron 2012-39: 35. 2012.

Common names: Purple monkeyflower
Conservation concern
Basionym: Mimulus purpureus A. L. Grant Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 11: 255, plate 5, fig. 2. 1925
Synonyms: M. purpureus var. pauxillus A. L. Grant
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 388. Mentioned on page 379.

Annuals, taprooted. Stems erect, simple or branched from basal nodes, 3–10 cm, minutely puberulent. Leaves cauline, basal not persistent; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3–5-veined, elliptic to lanceolate, 4–15 × 1–5 mm, base truncate to truncate-cordate, clasping, margins entire, sometimes toothed, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces minutely puberulent. Flowers herkogamous, 1–22, from distal or medial to distal nodes. Fruiting pedicels ascending to often spreading horizontally, 13–57 (–70) mm. Fruiting calyces becoming reddish, campanulate, 3–8 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, minutely puberulent, ribs thickened, lobes pronounced, erect, margins glabrous. Corollas pink to purple, adaxial limb darker than abaxial, abaxial limb with yellow markings, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric to funnelform, 7–13 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 7–10 mm, bilabiate, 3 abaxial lobes notched, 2 adaxial nearly entire, abaxial limb sparsely bearded. Styles glabrous. Anthers included, glabrous. Capsules included, 3–8 mm.


Phenology: Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat: Moist openings along streams, swales, and depressions, pine duff in yellow pine forests, margins of dry meadows.
Elevation: 1900–2800 m.

Distribution

Calif., Mexico (Baja California)

Discussion

Erythranthe purpurea is restricted to the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino County and is disjunct in the Sierra San Pedro Mártir in Baja California, Mexico.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Erythranthe purpurea"
loculicidal +
acute +  and obtuse +
Guy L. Nesom +  and Naomi S. Fraga +
(A. L. Grant) N. S. Fraga +
rosulate +  and subrosulate +
not persistent +
truncate;truncate-cordate +
Mimulus purpureus +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
elliptic;lanceolate +
not leathery +  and semifleshy +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
compressed +, inflated +  and tubular +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
Purple monkeyflower +
regular +  and bilabiate +
compressed +
Calif. +  and Mexico (Baja California) +
1900–2800 m. +
hairy +  and glabrous +
5.7 cm57 mm <br />0.057 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
spreading;ascending to often +
1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br /> (5.7 cm57 mm <br />0.057 m <br />) +
reduced +
Moist openings along streams, swales, and depressions, pine duff in yellow pine forests, margins of dry meadows. +
alternate +, opposite +, rosulate +  and subrosulate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
expanded +
pronounced +
3 (?) +  and Not 5 (?) +
mostly triangular;deltate +
reduced +  and longer +
glabrous +  and puberulent +
lobed +  and toothed +
basal +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
orthotropous +  and anatropous +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (?) +
Flowering May–Jun. +
Phytoneuron +
flattened +  and ellipsoid +
3 +  and 5 +
Conservation concern +
proximal +  and middle +
branched +  and simple +
puberulent +
4-angled +  and terete +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
M. purpureus var. pauxillus +
Erythranthe purpurea +
Erythranthe +
species +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br />) +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
perennial +  and annual +
herb +  and subshrub +
terrestrial +  and aquatic +
semiaquatic +  and terrestrial +
9 +, 8 +  and 7 +