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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