''Diplacus'' is a
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of
flowering plant
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s in the
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Phrymaceae
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, which was traditionally placed in family
Scrophulariaceae
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. It includes 49 species native to the western United States and northwestern Mexico.
[ Most prefer dry and rocky areas.]Thomas Nuttall
Thomas Nuttall (5 January 1786 – 10 September 1859) was an English botanist and zoologist who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841.
Nuttall was born in the village of Long Preston, near Settle in the West Riding of Yorkshire a ...
in 1838.[ It was merged into ''Mimulus'' no later than 1905, until the 2012 restructuring.]Mimulus
Mimulus , also known as monkeyflowers, is a plant genus in the family (biology), family Phrymaceae, which was traditionally placed in family Scrophulariaceae. The genus now contains only seven species, two native to eastern North America and th ...
'' by Barker, ''et al''., based largely upon DNA evidence, left seven species in ''Mimulus'', placed 111 into ''Erythranthe
''Erythranthe'', the monkey-flowers and musk-flowers, is a diverse plant genus with more than 120 members (as of 2022) in the family (biology), family Phrymaceae. ''Erythranthe'' was originally described as a separate genus, then generally regar ...
'' (species with axile placentation
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and long pedicels), placed 46 into ''Diplacus'' (species with parietal placentation and sessile flowers), placed two in '' Uvedalia'', and placed one each in '' Elacholoma'', ''Mimetanthe
''Mimetanthe'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Phrymaceae. It has only one species, ''Mimetanthe pilosa'', synonym ''Mimulus pilosus'', known by the common names false monkeyflower and downy mimetanthe. It is native to the western Un ...
'', and '' Thyridia''.
Species
49 species are accepted.[''Diplacus'' Nutt.]
''Plants of the World Online
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''. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
* '' Diplacus angustatus'' (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus aridus'' Abrams
* '' Diplacus aurantiacus'' (Curtis) Jeps. – sticky monkeyflower
* '' Diplacus × australis'' (McMinn ex Munz) Tulig
* '' Diplacus bicolor'' (synonym ''Diplacus whitneyi'' (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom)
* '' Diplacus bigelovii'' (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus bolanderi'' (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus brandegeei'' (Pennell) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus brevipes'' (Benth.) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus calycinus'' Eastw.
* '' Diplacus cascadensis''
* '' Diplacus clevelandii'' (Brandegee) Greene
* '' Diplacus clivicola'' (Greenm.) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus compactus'' (D.M.Thomps.) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus congdonii'' (B.L.Rob.) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus constrictus'' (A.L.Grant) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus cusickii'' (Greene) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus cusickioides''
* '' Diplacus deschutesensis''
* '' Diplacus douglasii'' (Benth.) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus fremontii'' (Benth.) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus grandiflorus'' Groenl.
* '' Diplacus graniticola''
* '' Diplacus jepsonii'' (A.L.Grant) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus johnstonii'' (A.L.Grant) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus kelloggii'' (Curran ex Greene) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus latifolius'' Nutt.
* '' Diplacus layneae'' (Greene) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus leptaleus'' (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus linearis'' (Benth.) Greene
* '' Diplacus × lompocensis'' McMinn
* '' Diplacus longiflorus'' Nutt.
* '' Diplacus mephiticus'' (Greene) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus mohavensis'' (Lemmon) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus nanus'' (Hook. & Arn.) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus ovatus'' (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus parryi'' (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom & N.S.Fraga
* '' Diplacus parviflorus'' Greene
* '' Diplacus pictus'' (Curran ex Greene) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus pulchellus'' (Drew ex Greene) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus puniceus'' Nutt.
* '' Diplacus pygmaeus'' (A.L.Grant) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus rattanii'' (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus rupicola'' (Coville & A.L.Grant) G.L.Nesom & N.S.Fraga
* '' Diplacus rutilis'' (A.L.Grant) McMinn
* '' Diplacus stellatus'' Kellogg
* '' Diplacus thompsonii''
* '' Diplacus torreyi'' (A.Gray) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus traskiae'' (A.L.Grant) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus tricolor'' (Hartw. ex Lindl.) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus vandenbergensis'' (D.M.Thomps.) G.L.Nesom
* '' Diplacus viscidus'' (Congdon) G.L.Nesom
References
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Lamiales genera
Flora of Northern America
Taxa described in 1838
Taxa named by Thomas Nuttall