Diplacus cusickii

Diplacus cusickii
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Phrymaceae
Genus: Diplacus
Species:
D. cusickii
Binomial name
Diplacus cusickii
Synonyms
  • Eunanus cusickii Greene
  • Mimulus cusickii (Greene) Rattan

Diplacus cusickii is a species of monkeyflower known by the common name Cusick's monkeyflower. It is native to the northwestern United States, where it can be found in parts of Idaho and Oregon. It grows in moist spots in bare and scrubby habitat, rocky slopes and plateau.

Description

This is a hairy annual herb producing an erect stem up to about 24 centimeters tall. The pointed oval leaves are up to about 4.5 centimeters long, the herbage green to reddish in color. The tubular base of the flower corolla is encapsulated in a hairy calyx of sepals with unequal pointed lobes at its mouth. The corolla is 2 to 3 cm long and pink in color with yellow blotches in the throat.

Taxonomy

The species was first described as Eunanus cusickii by Edward Lee Greene in 1887. In 1898 Volney Rattan placed the species in genus Mimulus as M. cusickii. In 2012 Guy L. Nesom placed the species in genus Diplacus as D. cusickii. Nesom circumscribed the species more narrowly than M. cusickii, with most specimens previously considered M. cusickii described by Nesom as Diplacus cusickioides.

References

  1. 1 2 3 NatureServe (31 July 2026). "Diplacus cusickii". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  2. 1 2 Barker, W. L. (Bill); et al. (2012). "A Taxonomic Conspectus of Phyrmaceae: A Narrowed Circumscription for MIMULUS, New and Resurrected Genera, and New Names and Combinations" (PDF). Phytoneuron. 39: 1–60. ISSN 2153-733X.
  3. 1 2 "Diplacus cusickii (Greene) G.L.Nesom". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  4. ↑ Beardsley, P. M.; Yen, Alan; Olmstead, R. G. (2003). "AFLP Phylogeny of Mimulus Section Erythranthe and the Evolution of Hummingbird Pollination". Evolution. 57 (6): 1397–1410. doi:10.1554/02-086. JSTOR 3448862. PMID 12894947. S2CID 198154155.
  5. ↑ Beardsley, P. M.; Olmstead, R. G. (2002). "Redefining Phrymaceae: the placement of Mimulus, tribe Mimuleae, and Phryma". American Journal of Botany. 89 (7): 1093–1102. doi:10.3732/ajb.89.7.1093. JSTOR 4122195. PMID 21665709.
  6. ↑ Beardsley, P. M.; Schoenig, Steve E.; Whittall, Justen B.; Olmstead, Richard G. (2004). "Patterns of Evolution in Western North American Mimulus (Phrymaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 91 (3): 474–4890. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.3.474. JSTOR 4123743. PMID 21653403.
  7. ↑ Taylor, Ronald J. (1994) [1992]. Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary (rev. ed.). Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Pub. Co. p. 48. ISBN 0-87842-280-3. OCLC 25708726.