Mimulus L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 204

5. Mimulus L. 2

Perennial herbs; leaves opposite. Flowers solitary in the leafaxils or in lax, leafy, terminal racemes. Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-toothed; tube keeled and plicate. Corolla with cylindrical-campanulate tube and 2-lipped limb; upper lip flat, erect, 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; anther-lobes transverse. Stigma shortly 2-lobed. Capsule loculicidal; seeds numerous.

Literature: A. L. Grant, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 11: 99-388 (1924).

1 Calyx-teeth ± equal; corolla c. 2 x 1 cm; seeds tuberculate 3. moschatus

1 Calyx-teeth conspicuously unequal; corolla c. 4x 3 cm; seeds finely striate

2 Inflorescence glandular-pubescent; pedicels 12-25 mm 1. guttatus

2 Inflorescence glabrous; pedicels 25-70 mm 2. luteus