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Monkeyflowers


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    • found: Work cat.: Slater, J.R. Mimulus distribution in Washington State, 1976:p. 682-690 (common name of each species listed includes Monkey Flower)
    • found: Plants national database, May 20, 2005(Mimulus L., monkeyflower)
    • found: ITIS, Apr. 23, 2000(Mimulus. Common name: monkeyflower. Synonyms: none. Family Scrophulariaceae; also, Mimulus, family Majidae, infraorder Brachyura)
    • found: Web. 3(monkey flower (a plant of the genus Mimulus))
    • found: The Amer. Hort. Soc. A-Z encyc. of garden plants, 1997(Mimulus, syn. Diplacus. Monkey flower)
    • found: USDA Plants database, May 7, 2020(Genus Mimulus - monkeyflower, Family Scrophulariaceae; Genus Erythranthe - monkeyflower, Family Scrophulariaceae; Genus Diplacus - bush monkeyflower, Family Scrophulariaceae)
    • found: Calfora website, May 7, 2020(Genus Mimulus, Family Phrymaceae; Genus Mimetanthe, Family Phrymaceae; Genus Erythranthe, Family Phrymaceae; Genus Diplacus, Family Phrymaceae; common names of species in all four genera include "monkeyflower" or "monkey flower")
    • found: NatureServe explorer, May 7, 2020(Genus Erythranthe, Family Phrymaceae; lists 18 species, e.g. Erythranthe calcicola, Limestone Monkeyflower; Erythranthe carsonensis, Carson Valley Monkeyflower; Erythranthe filicifolia, Fern-leaved Monkeyflower; also lists 32 species in genus Mimulus, family Phrymaceae, with common name "monkeyflower", e.g. Mimulus acutidens, King's River Monkeyflower; Mimulus ampliatus, Spacious Monkeyflower)
    • found: Wikipedia, May 7, 2020(Monkey flower can refer to: Several genera of plant family Phrymaceae, including: Diplacus, Erythranthe, Mimulus) Erythranthe (Erythranthe, the monkey-flowers and musk-flowers, is a diverse plant genus with at least 111 members (as of 2017) in the family Phrymaceae. Erythranthe was originally described as a separate genus, then generally regarded as a section within the genus Mimulus, and recently returned to generic rank. Mimulus sect. Diplacus was segregated from Mimulus as a separate genus at the same time. Mimulus remains as a small genus of eastern North America and the Southern Hemisphere. Molecular data show Erythranthe and Diplacus to be distinct evolutionary lines that are distinct from Mimulus as strictly defined) Mimulus (Mimulus is a plant genus in the family Phrymaceae, which was traditionally placed in family Scrophulariaceae. The genus now contains only seven species, two native to eastern North America and the other five native to Asia, Australia, Africa, or Madagascar. In the past, about 150 species were placed in this genus, most of which have since been assigned to other genera, the majority to genus Erythranthe) Diplacus (Diplacus is a plant genus in the family Phrymaceae, which was traditionally placed in family Scrophulariaceae. In the 2012 restructuring of Mimulus by Barker et al., based largely upon DNA evidence, seven species were left in Mimulus, 111 placed into Erythranthe (species with axile placentation and long pedicels), 46 placed into Diplacus (species with parietal placentation and sessile flowers), two placed in Uvedalia, and one each placed in Elacholoma, Mimetanthe, and Thyridia. Diplacus used to be a separate genus from Mimulus but no later than 1905, it was merged into Mimulus until the 2012 restructuring)
    • found: Genera in Phrymaceae, via Index to California plant names (Website), May 7, 2020(Diplacus; Erythranthe; Eunanus; Mazus; Mimetanthe; Mimulus; Phryma)
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    • QK495.P453
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    • 2005-05-20: new
    • 2020-08-17: revised
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