View source for Diplacus puniceus

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|accepted_name=Diplacus puniceus
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Nat. Hist.
|place=1: 137. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|common_names=Red bush monkeyflower
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Diplacus glutinosus var. puniceus
|authority=(Nuttall) Bentham
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mimulus aurantiacus var. puniceus
|authority=(Nuttall) D. M. Thompson
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. glutinosus var. puniceus
|authority=(Nuttall) A. Gray
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. puniceus
|authority=(Nuttall) Steudel
}}
|hierarchy=Phrymaceae;Diplacus;Diplacus puniceus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Phrymaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Diplacus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Diplacus puniceus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 427, 450, 451
|treatment_page=page 452
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs </b>or shrubs. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending-erect or sprawling, 200–1500(–2000) mm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, relatively even-sized; petiole absent; blade linear-oblong or narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 10–60 × 1–11(–15) mm, margins entire or serrate, plane or revolute, apex acute, surfaces glabrous. <b>Pedicels</b> 5–25 mm in fruit. <b>Flowers</b> 2(–4) per node, chasmogamous. <b>Calyces</b> not inflated in fruit, 17–25 mm, glabrous, lobes unequal, apex acute, ribs green, intercostal areas light green. <b>Corollas</b> deep red, orange-red, or orange to maroon, throat sometimes orangish, palate ridges red, rarely yellow, tube-throat 27–35 mm, limb 15–23 mm diam., bilabiate, lobes oblong, apex truncate, sometimes notched. <b>Anthers</b> (distal pair) exserted, glabrous. <b>Styles</b> minutely glandular. <b>Stigmas</b> exserted, lobes equal. <b>Capsules</b> 14–22 mm. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jan–Jul(–Oct).
|habitat=Rocky hillsides, boulders, moist hillsides, canyons, wash bottoms, roadsides, chaparral.
|elevation=(20–)100–700 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Diplacus puniceus</i> occurs in southwestern California and northeastern Baja California. Hybrids are common with <i>D. longiflorus</i> and have been called D. ×australis.</p>
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name=Diplacus puniceus
|author=
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Diplacus glutinosus var. puniceus;Mimulus aurantiacus var. puniceus;M. glutinosus var. puniceus;M. puniceus
|basionyms=
|family=Phrymaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jan–Jul(–Oct).
|habitat=Rocky hillsides, boulders, moist hillsides, canyons, wash bottoms, roadsides, chaparral.
|elevation=(20–)100–700 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Nat. Hist.
|publication year=1838
|special status=
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|genus=Diplacus
|species=Diplacus puniceus
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