Family: Phrymaceae
Mimulus moschatus
Citation:
Douglas ex Lindley, Edwards' Bot. Reg. 13:t. 1118 (1828).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Musk monkey-flower, musk-scented monkey-flower, musk mimulus.
Description:
Procumbent or ascending, sticky-villous, musk-scented perennial, the main branches spreading up to 50 cm, with internodes 2-6.5 rarely to 1 cm long; leaves not joined across the node, on petioles 2-10 mm long, the blade broad-ovate, 2-6 cm x 10-30 rarely to 4 mm, rounded to cordate at the base, denticulate, acute to obtuse, mucronulate.
Flowers 1 rarely 2 in the axils; pedicels 10-22 mm long; calyx cylindrical, 8-12 mm long, the slender teeth somewhat unequal, about one-third the length of the calyx; corolla yellow throughout, the tube and mouth twice the length of the calyx, with fine red lines, with rounded more or less equal spreading lobes, with a patch of coarse hairs and brown blotches inside the lower side of the open mouth.
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Image source: fig. 585B in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of the A.CT., fig. 330.
Distribution:
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Flowers: (July) Sept.-March.
N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Native of North America, also introduced in New Zealand and Europe. Distrib: In moist sites; recorded from swamp, stream side, gully, paddock and drain.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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