Erythranthe breviflora

(Piper) G. L. Nesom

Phytoneuron 2012-39: 38. 2012.

Common names: Short-flower monkeyflower
Endemic
Basionym: Mimulus breviflorus Piper Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 28: 45. 1901
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 399. Mentioned on page 382, 400.

Annuals, shallowly fibrous-rooted. Stems ascending, geniculate at nodes, branched at proximal and medial nodes, 4–15 cm, minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped, sometimes minutely hirtellous, hairs sharp-pointed, eglandular. Leaves usually cauline, basal usually deciduous by flowering; petiole 1–3 mm; blade palmately 3-veined, narrowly ovate or narrowly lanceolate to elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, largest 5–15 × 2–6 mm, relatively even-sized, or slightly reduced distally, base attenuate, margins entire, mucronulate, or denticulate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped, sometimes minutely hirtellous, hairs sharp-pointed, eglandular. Flowers plesiogamous, 10–20, from medial to distal nodes. Fruiting pedicels straight, 5–11 mm, minutely stipitate-glandular, hairs 0.1–0.3 mm, gland-tipped, sometimes minutely hirtellous, hairs sharp-pointed, eglandular. Fruiting calyces winged, plicate-angled, campanulate becoming ovoid-ellipsoid to campanulate, distinctly inflated, 5–6 mm, margins distinctly toothed or lobed, sparsely, minutely hirtellous, eglandular, sometimes sparsely sessile-glandular, lobes pronounced, erect. Corollas yellow, red-spotted or striped, bilaterally symmetric, weakly bilabiate; tube-throat cylindric to narrowly funnelform, 3.5–5 mm, not exserted beyond calyx margin; limb barely widened, lobes broadly obovate, apex rounded. Styles glabrous. Anthers included, glabrous. Capsules included, 4–6 mm.


Phenology: Flowering May–Jul.
Habitat: Stream and lake sides, gravel bars, springs, moist slopes, damp swales between dunes, along trails.
Elevation: 700–2300 m.

Distribution

B.C., Calif., Idaho, Mont., Nev., Oreg., Wash.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Erythranthe breviflora"
Guy L. Nesom +  and Naomi S. Fraga +
(Piper) G. L. Nesom +
Mimulus breviflorus +
Short-flower monkeyflower +
B.C. +, Calif. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, Nev. +, Oreg. +  and Wash. +
700–2300 m. +
Stream and lake sides, gravel bars, springs, moist slopes, damp swales between dunes, along trails. +
Flowering May–Jul. +
Phytoneuron +
Mimulus sect. Erythranthe +  and Mimulus subg. Synplacus +
Erythranthe breviflora +
Erythranthe +
species +