Erythranthe grayi

(A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom

Phytoneuron 2012-39: 34. 2012.

EndemicConservation concern
Basionym: Mimulus grayi A. L. Grant Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 11: 203, plate 6. 1925
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 382. Mentioned on page 379.

Annuals, fibrous-rooted. Stems erect, simple or branched from base, weakly 4-angled, 8–20 cm, glabrous. Leaves basal and cauline; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately 3–5-veined, broadly ovate, 7–18 × 5–12 mm, base rounded, margins denticulate, apex acute, surfaces glabrous, rarely sparsely puberulent. Flowers herkogamous, 2–20, from proximal to distal nodes. Fruiting pedicels 6–7 mm, shorter than subtending leaves, glabrous. Fruiting calyces campanulate, 9–11 × 5–6 mm, margins subtruncate, glabrous, sometimes densely papillate at flowering with tiny, 1-celled, eglandular hairs, these apparently deciduous by fruiting, lobes reduced, subequal. Corollas rose red, throat pink lined with rose red and a yellow patch, abaxial ridges yellow, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric-funnelform, 8–11 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 7–10 mm. Styles glabrous. Anthers included, minutely villous-hirsute. Capsules included, 5–9 mm.


Phenology: Flowering May–Jul(–Oct).
Habitat: Drying pond beds, creek banks, yellow pine, yellow pine-Libocedrus woodlands.
Elevation: 1000–1900 m.

Discussion

In addition to the features noted in the key and descriptions, the fruiting calyces of Erythranthe grayi are distinctly more inflated than those of E. acutidens and E. inconspicua. G. L. Nesom (2012g) maintained E. grayi as distinct from E. acutidens, relying primarily on fruiting pedicel length (see key above), but the two have nearly identical ranges (Tuolumne County south to Kern County), and study of additional collections suggests that only a single species may be represented.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Erythranthe grayi"
yellow +, yellow patch +  and rose red +
villous-hirsute +
loculicidal +
Guy L. Nesom +  and Naomi S. Fraga +
(A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom +
rosulate +  and subrosulate +
not persistent +
rounded +
Mimulus grayi +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br />) +
not leathery +  and semifleshy +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
compressed +, inflated +  and tubular +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
regular +  and bilabiate +
compressed +
1000–1900 m. +
hairy +  and glabrous +
nodding;spreading;nodding;spreading;erect +
reduced +
Drying pond beds, creek banks, yellow pine, yellow pine-Libocedrus woodlands. +
eglandular +  and 1-celled +
alternate +, opposite +, rosulate +  and subrosulate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
cauline +  and basal +
expanded +
3 (?) +  and Not 5 (?) +
mostly triangular;deltate +
subequal +  and reduced +
papillate +
denticulate +
basal +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
orthotropous +  and anatropous +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (?) +
Flowering May–Jul(–Oct). +
Phytoneuron +
flattened +  and ellipsoid +
3 +  and 5 +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
proximal +  and middle +
branched +  and simple +
4-angled +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
puberulent +  and glabrous +
Mimulus sect. Erythranthe +  and Mimulus subg. Synplacus +
Erythranthe grayi +
Erythranthe +
species +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
perennial +  and annual +
herb +  and subshrub +
terrestrial +  and aquatic +
semiaquatic +  and terrestrial +
9 +, 8 +  and 7 +