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|accepted_name=Diplacus cusickii
|accepted_authority=(Greene) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytoneuron
|place=2012-39: 28. 2012
|year=2012
}}
|common_names=Cusick’s monkeyflower
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Eunanus cusickii
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|publication_title=Pittonia
|publication_place=1: 36. 1887
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mimulus cusickii
|authority=(Greene) Rattan
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Phrymaceae;Diplacus;Diplacus cusickii
|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 cusickii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 429, 436, 440, 442
|treatment_page=page 439
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual. <b>Stems</b> erect to erect-ascending, 10–80 mm, distal internodes 2–20 mm, minutely glandular-puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline or usually cauline, relatively even-sized or gradually larger distally; petiole absent, proximal base short petiole-like, 1–5 mm; blade ovate to broadly elliptic-ovate, (10–)15–25(–35) × 4–17 mm, margins entire, plane, apex acuminate, surfaces glabrous or adaxial minutely glandular-puberulent. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–1.5 mm in fruit. <b>Flowers</b> 2 per node, or 1 or 2 per node on 1 plant, chasmogamous. <b>Calyces</b> symmetrically attached to pedicels, not inflated in fruit, 7–10 mm, glabrous or minutely stipitate-glandular, lobes unequal, apex linear-acuminate, sharp-pointed, ribs green distally, intercostal areas whitish. <b>Corollas</b> magenta or rose purple, tube yellow, throat yellow, throat and distal tube red-spotted on floor, palate ridges yellow, tube-throat 13–16(–19) mm, limb 16–24 mm diam., bilabiate. <b>Anthers</b> included, glabrous or sparsely hirsutulous. <b>Styles</b> pubescent, at least on distal 1/2. <b>Stigmas</b> exserted, lobes subequal. <b>Capsules</b> 10–15 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jul.
|habitat=Slopes, canyons, washes, ditches, sand talus, diatomaceous slopes, basalt outcrops, black volcanic gravel, volcanic ash and sand, sagebrush areas.
|elevation=800–1000 m.
|distribution=Idaho;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Diplacus cusickii</i> is endemic to northern Malheur County, Oregon, and along the Snake River in Ada and Owyhee counties, Idaho. Its narrow geographic range reflects the segregation of the more widely distributed <i>D. cusickioides</i>.</p><!--
--><p>D. M. Thompson (2005) noted that collections in northern Malheur County, Oregon, were intermediate between <i>Mimulus</i> cusickii and M. nanus; the type of M. cusickii is from this area and is among the narrowly endemic, supposedly putative intermediates (G. L. Nesom 2013c). These plants have abruptly and sharply acuminate leaf apices like the more widespread form traditionally identified as <i>Diplacus cusickii</i>; they differ in having glabrous leaf surfaces. Typical <i>D. nanus</i> occurs in close sympatry, without intergradation, with the populations in northern Malheur County. Because of their distinctive morphology and coherent geography, the northern Malheur County plants are reasonably recognized as a distinct species. The more widely distributed form formerly identified as <i>D. cusickii</i> now is identified as <i>D. cusickioides</i>. Populations of <i>D. cusickii</i> in the narrow sense along the Snake River in Ada and Owyhee counties, Idaho, may have dispersed there from the Oregon center. Some plants of <i>D. cusickioides</i> in the Leslie Gulch area of east-central Malheur County have somewhat reduced vestiture, approaching that of <i>D. cusickii</i>.</p>
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name=Diplacus cusickii
|authority=(Greene) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Mimulus cusickii
|basionyms=Eunanus cusickii
|family=Phrymaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jul.
|habitat=Slopes, canyons, washes, ditches, sand talus, diatomaceous slopes, basalt outcrops, black volcanic gravel, volcanic ash and sand, sagebrush areas.
|elevation=800–1000 m.
|distribution=Idaho;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytoneuron
|publication year=2012
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Diplacus
|species=Diplacus cusickii
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