Erythranthe chinatiensis

G. L. Nesom

Phytoneuron 2012-40: 86, figs. 12–14. 2012.

Common names: Chinati Mountains monkeyflower
EndemicConservation concern
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 424. Mentioned on page 374.

Perennials, rhizomatous, sometimes rooting at nodes, mat-forming. Stems procumbent, branched, 5–20 cm, glabrous. Leaves cauline; petiole 2–10 (–20) mm; blade palmately 3–5 (–7) -veined, ovate to broadly ovate or orbicular-ovate, 4–15 (–22) × 4–15 (–18) mm, base truncate to cuneate, margins shallowly denticulate or merely mucronate to mucronulate, teeth 3–6 per side, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glabrous, adaxial sometimes moderately villosulous, hairs vitreous, flattened, eglandular or minutely gland-tipped. Flowers plesiogamous, 2–8, axillary at distal nodes. Fruiting pedicels 10–20 mm, glabrous. Fruiting calyces nodding 45–90º, 5-lobed, ellipsoid, inflated, sagittally compressed, 5–6 mm, glabrous or sparsely villosulous-glandular, throat closing. Corollas yellow, red-dotted, bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, 7–8 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 6–7 mm, abaxial limb strongly reflexed, lobes fimbriate. Styles glabrous. Anthers included, glabrous. Capsules included, 4–5 mm.


Phenology: Flowering Feb–Sep.
Habitat: Seeps in vertical cliff faces, wet bluffs.
Elevation: 600–1900(–2300) m.

Discussion

Erythranthe chinatiensis is similar to E. parvula in its prostrate habit, five-lobed calyces, and fimbriate corolla lobes. It differs from the latter in its nearly glabrous leaves and strongly reflexed abaxial corolla lip. Erythranthe chinatiensis is known only from Presidio County but should be expected to occur also in adjacent Chihuahua, Mexico.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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loculicidal +
acute +  and obtuse +
Guy L. Nesom +  and Naomi S. Fraga +
G. L. Nesom +
rosulate +  and subrosulate +
not persistent +
truncate;cuneate +
3-5(-7)-veined +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2.2 cm22 mm <br />0.022 m <br />) +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
ovate;broadly ovate or orbicular-ovate +
not leathery +  and semifleshy +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
compressed +, inflated +  and tubular +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Chinati Mountains monkeyflower +
red-dotted;yellow +
compressed +
600–1900(–2300) m. +
hairy +  and glabrous +
nodding;spreading;nodding;spreading;erect +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
reduced +
Seeps in vertical cliff faces, wet bluffs. +
gland-tipped +  and eglandular +
flattened +
alternate +, opposite +, rosulate +  and subrosulate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
expanded +
3 (?) +  and Not 5 (?) +
fimbriate +
reduced +  and longer +
merely mucronate +  and mucronulate +
basal +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
orthotropous +  and anatropous +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
Flowering Feb–Sep. +
Phytoneuron +
flattened +  and ellipsoid +
3 +  and 5 +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
proximal +  and middle +
erect;decumbent +
4-angled +  and terete +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
Mimulus sect. Erythranthe +  and Mimulus subg. Synplacus +
Erythranthe chinatiensis +
Erythranthe +
species +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
rooting +  and rhizomatous +
villosulous-glandular +  and glabrous +
compressed +, inflated +, ellipsoid +  and 5-lobed +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
perennial +  and annual +
herb +  and subshrub +
terrestrial +  and aquatic +
semiaquatic +  and terrestrial +
9 +, 8 +  and 7 +