Diplacus rupicola

(Coville & A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga

Phytoneuron 2012-39: 27. 2012.

Common names: Death Valley monkeyflower rock midget
Endemic
Basionym: Mimulus rupicola Coville & A. L. Grant J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 26: 99, fig. s.n. [p. 100]. 1936
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 448. Mentioned on page 427, 428.

Herbs, perennial, with woody caudex. Stems erect to ascending, sometimes pendent, 10–170 mm, densely and finely glandular-puberulent. Leaves usually basal rosettes and proximal cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent, base gradually narrowed to broad, petiolelike extension; blade oblanceolate, (10–) 18–60 (–80) × (1.5–) 3–15 (–26) mm, margins entire, plane, not ciliate, apex acute, surfaces glandular-puberulent. Pedicels 1–3 mm in fruit. Flowers 1 or 2 per node, chasmogamous. Calyces asymmetrically attached to pedicel, not inflated in fruit, 8–18 mm, densely glandular-puberulent, lobes unequal, apex acuminate, ribs green, intercostal areas pale green. Corollas: limb pinkish white to nearly white with a large magenta-purple round or 2-lobed blotch at base of each lobe, throat and palate ridges golden yellow with magenta speckling, palate ridges short-pilose, throat glabrous, tube-throat 17–35 mm, limb 8–21 mm diam., not bilabiate. Anthers included, glabrous or slightly puberulent at base. Styles glandular-puberulent. Stigmas included, lobes equal. Capsules 3–8 mm, indehiscent until senescence of pedicel, then opening along both sutures only after wetting. 2n = 16.


Phenology: Flowering Feb–Jun.
Habitat: Crevices in limestone cliffs and walls, limestone ridge tops and slopes, wash edges, gravelly slopes, canyon sides.
Elevation: 300–1800 m.

Discussion

Diplacus rupicola is known from Inyo County.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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puberulent +  and glabrous +
acuminate +  and acute +
Guy L. Nesom +  and Melissa C. Tulig +
(Coville & A. L. Grant) G. L. Nesom & N. S. Fraga +
golden yellow with magenta +
narrowed +
Mimulus rupicola +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2.6 cm26 mm <br />0.026 m <br />) +
1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
oblanceolate +
not +, leathery +  and not fleshy +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
2-lobed +, round +, magenta-purple +  and large +
glandular-puberulent +
not inflated +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br />) +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
Death Valley monkeyflower +  and rock midget +
not +, rarely radially symmetric +  and weakly strongly bilabiate +
white;yellow;orange;yellow;orange;purplish brown;purple;lavender;magenta;red;pink;blue +
salverform;rotate +
300–1800 m. +
petiole-like +
hairy +  and glabrous +
reflexed;nodding;erect +
reduced +
compressed;asymmetrically ovoid;lanceoloid or nearly cylindric +
Crevices in limestone cliffs and walls, limestone ridge tops and slopes, wash edges, gravelly slopes, canyon sides. +
gland-tipped +
alternate +, opposite +, rosulate +  and subrosulate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
cauline +  and basal +
not bilabiate +
pinkish white +  and nearly white +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2.1 cm21 mm <br />0.021 m <br />) +
triangular;deltate +
unequal +
palmate +  and subpinnate +
wing-angled +  and angled +
basal +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
orthotropous +  and anatropous +
rarely more or less equal to or slightly longer +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
Flowering Feb–Jun. +
Phytoneuron +
cauline +, proximal +  and basal +
equal-sized +
yellow +  and olive green or dark-brown +
flattened +, ovoid +  and oblong +
deciduous +
pendent;erect;ascending +
glandular-puberulent +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (17 cm170 mm <br />0.17 m <br />) +
glandular-puberulent +
glandular-puberulent +
Eunanus +  and Mimulus sect. Diplacus +
Diplacus rupicola +
Diplacus +
species +
1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
dehiscent +, indehiscent +  and loculicidal +
10 +, 9 +  and 8 +