Diplacus parviflorus

Greene

Pittonia 1: 36. 1887.

Common names: Island bush monkeyflower
Endemic
Synonyms: Mimulus aurantiacus var. parviflorus (Greene) D. M. Thompson M. flemingii Munz
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 452. Mentioned on page 427.

Subshrubs or shrubs. Stems erect to ascending-erect, 300–1200 mm, glabrous. Leaves cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent; blade elliptic to broadly elliptic-oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 15–60 × 4–21 mm, margins entire or serrate, plane or revolute, apex acute to obtuse or rounded, surfaces glabrous. Pedicels 6–15 mm in fruit. Flowers 2 per node, chasmogamous. Calyces not inflated in fruit, 18–25 mm, glabrous, tube slightly dilated distally, lobes unequal, apex acute, ribs green, intercostal areas light green. Corollas deep red to scarlet, throat sometimes orange, not spotted or striped, palate ridges red to orange-red, tube-throat 27–33 mm, limb 12–16 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes oblong, each truncate-entire to slightly emarginate. Anthers exserted, glabrous. Styles minutely glandular. Stigmas exserted, lobes equal. Capsules 14–21 mm. 2n = 20.


Phenology: Flowering Mar–Aug.
Habitat: Hillsides, canyons, rocky slopes and walls, bluffs, sea cliffs.
Elevation: 10–400 m.

Discussion

Diplacus parviflorus is known from four of the Channel Islands (Anacapa, San Clemente, Santa Cruz, and Santa Rosa).

Hybrids with Diplacus longiflorus occur on Santa Cruz Island; A. L. Grant (according to label data of collections) found these to be fairly common on open hillsides near Friar’s Harbor and Valdez, where the two species grew near each other though apparently separated in habitat, with typical D. parviflorus mostly in the canyons and D. longiflorus on open hillsides. She noted that the apparent hybrids were variable in all possible combinations of features of the leaves, calyces, and corollas, including color.

Mimulus parviflorus (Greene) A. L. Grant 1925, not Lindley 1825, pertains here.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Diplacus parviflorus"
acute +  and obtuse or rounded +
Guy L. Nesom +  and Melissa C. Tulig +
Greene +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
elliptic;broadly elliptic-oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate +
not +, leathery +  and not fleshy +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (2.1 cm21 mm <br />0.021 m <br />) +
not inflated +
1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br /> (2.1 cm21 mm <br />0.021 m <br />) +
Island bush monkeyflower +
not +, rarely radially symmetric +  and weakly strongly bilabiate +
salverform;rotate +
10–400 m. +
hairy +  and glabrous +
reflexed;nodding;erect +
reduced +
compressed;asymmetrically ovoid;lanceoloid or nearly cylindric +
Hillsides, canyons, rocky slopes and walls, bluffs, sea cliffs. +
gland-tipped +
alternate +, opposite +, rosulate +  and subrosulate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
equal-sized +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br />) +
truncate-entire +  and slightly emarginate +
unequal +
palmate +  and subpinnate +
revolute +, plane +  and serrate +
wing-angled +  and angled +
basal +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
orthotropous +  and anatropous +
red +  and orange-red +
rarely more or less equal to or slightly longer +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
Flowering Mar–Aug. +
yellow +  and olive green or dark-brown +
flattened +, ovoid +  and oblong +
deciduous +
erect;ascending-erect +
30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> (120 cm1,200 mm <br />1.2 m <br />) +
Mimulus aurantiacus var. parviflorus +  and M. flemingii +
Diplacus parviflorus +
Diplacus +
species +
2.7 cm27 mm <br />0.027 m <br /> (3.3 cm33 mm <br />0.033 m <br />) +
striped +, not spotted +  and orange +
dilated +
dehiscent +, indehiscent +  and loculicidal +
perennial +  and annual +
shrub +  and subshrub +
10 +, 9 +  and 8 +