Diplacus

Diplacus
Diplacus mephiticus, a population with flowers of varied colours
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Phrymaceae
Genus: Diplacus
Nutt. (1838)
Steamboat monkeyflower, Diplacus ovatus. Carson Range, 2017

Diplacus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Phrymaceae, which was traditionally placed in family Scrophulariaceae. It includes 49 species native to the western United States and northwestern Mexico.[1] Most prefer dry and rocky areas.[2]

The genus Diplacus was first described by Thomas Nuttall in 1838.[1] It was merged into Mimulus no later than 1905, until the 2012 restructuring.[3] The 2012 restructuring of Mimulus by Barker, et al., based largely upon DNA evidence, left seven species in Mimulus, placed 111 into Erythranthe (species with axile placentation 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, and Thyridia.[4][5][6]

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  2. ^ "California Monkey flowers". Las Pilitas Nursery. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Diplacus glutinosus". Gardeners' Magazine. Vol. XLVIII. London. 18 November 1905. p. 741.
  4. ^ Barker, W. L. (Bill); Nesom, Guy; Beardsley, Paul M.; Fraga, Naomi S. (2012). "A Taxonomic Conspectus of Phrymaceae: A Narrowed Circumscription for Mimulus, New and Resurrected Genera, and New Names and Combinations" (PDF). Phytoneuron. 39: 1–60. ISSN 2153-733X.
  5. ^ Cooley, Arielle M.; Willis, John H. (2009). "Genetic divergence causes parallel evolution of flower color in Chilean Mimulus". New Phytologist. 183 (3): 729–739. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02858.x. PMID 19453433.
  6. ^ Vallejo-Marín, Mario; Buggs, Richard J.; Cooley, Arielle M.; Puzey, Joshua R. (2015). "Speciation by genome duplication: Repeated origins and genomic composition of the recently formed allopolyploid species Mimulus peregrinus". Evolution. 69 (6): 1487–1500. doi:10.1111/evo.12678. PMC 5033005. PMID 25929999.