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Diplacus bicolor
HARLEQUIN MONKEYFLOWER


Higher Taxonomy
Family: PhrymaceaeView DescriptionDichotomous Key
Common Name: LOPSEED FAMILY
Habit: Annual to shrub. Stem: ×-section generally round. Leaf: opposite, simple, generally entire or toothed; stipules 0. Inflorescence: spike, raceme, or panicle, bracted, or flowers 1--2 in axils. Flower: bisexual; calyx radial or +- bilateral, tube long, generally ribbed, lobes 5; corolla generally bilateral, generally 2-lipped, upper [1]2-lobed, lower 3-lobed; stamens 4 in 2 pairs, epipetalous, included or exserted; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers 1--2, placentas parietal or axile, style 1, stigma lobes 2, flat, folding together when touched. Fruit: generally capsule, generally ellipsoid, loculicidal [indehiscent, 1-seeded].
Genera In Family: +- 12 genera, 200 species: +- worldwide, many habitats; some cultivated as ornamental (e.g., Diplacus, Erythranthe). Formerly included in Scrophulariaceae. Note: Family description by David J. Keil.
eFlora Treatment Author: Naomi S. Fraga [TJM2 author David M. Thompson]
Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin.
Genus: DiplacusView DescriptionDichotomous Key


Common Name: MONKEYFLOWER
Habit: Annual to shrub, glabrous to hairy. Stem: generally erect. Leaf: generally +- sessile, generally toothed or entire. Inflorescence: raceme, bracted, flowers 1--4 per node. Flower: pedicel generally < calyx; occasionally cleistogamous; calyx generally green, lobes 5, generally << tube, generally unequal; corolla semi-persistent, shriveling on the developing capsule (deciduous, in D. mohavensis and D. pictus), white to red, maroon, purple, orange, or yellow, tube-throat floor generally with 2 longitudinal folds; anther sacs spreading; placentas 2, parietal; stigma lobes generally included. Fruit: generally ovoid to lanceolate in outline or nearly cylindric, dehiscent to near base along the upper suture, and at least in distal half along lower suture, or sometimes indehiscent, chambers 2. Seed: many, generally < 1 mm, ovoid, +- yellow to dark brown.
Etymology: (Greek: two cake, from the separated placentas in fruit at dehiscence) Note: Limb width measured between most distant points across corolla face.
eFlora Treatment Author: Naomi S. Fraga [TJM2 author David M. Thompson]
Reference: [Thompson 2005 Syst Bot Monogr 75:1--213; Barker et al. 2012 Phytoneuron 39:1--60]
Diplacus bicolor (A. Gray) Hrusa
NATIVE
Habit: Annual 1--14 cm, puberulent. Leaf: 7--23 mm, +- linear to narrowly elliptic, entire. Flower: pedicel 1--3 mm; calyx 4--8 mm, dark-ribbed, puberulent, lobes +- equal, 1--3 mm, acute; corolla magenta or yellow, tube-throat 13--18 mm, throat with 3--5 red-brown longitudinal stripes and 2 red-brown broader blotches most visible in yellow flowers. Fruit: 6--10 mm. Chromosomes: 2n=16.
Ecology: Disturbed areas, road banks, exposed runoff areas, granitic soils; Elevation: generally 1500--3270 m. Bioregional Distribution: s SNH. Flowering Time: May--Sep Note: Intergrades with Diplacus constrictus to south at lower elevations, with Diplacus leptaleus and Diplacus mephiticus to northeast at higher elevations.
Unabridged Synonyms: Eunanus bicolor A. Gray; Mimulus nanus Hook. & Arn. var. bicolor (A. Gray) A. Gray; Mimulus whitneyi A. Gray.
Jepson eFlora Author: Naomi S. Fraga [TJM2 author David M. Thompson]
Reference: [Thompson 2005 Syst Bot Monogr 75:1--213; Barker et al. 2012 Phytoneuron 39:1--60]
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Citation for this treatment: Naomi S. Fraga 2018, Diplacus bicolor, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 6, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=103264, accessed on April 19, 2024.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 19, 2024.

Mimulus bicolor
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Mimulus bicolor
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©2007 Chris Winchell
Mimulus bicolor
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Mimulus bicolor
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