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Diplacus aurantiacus, the sticky monkey-flower or orange bush monkey-flower, is a flowering plant that grows in a subshrub form, native to southwestern North America from southwestern Oregon south through most of California. It is a member of the lopseed family, Phrymaceae. It was formerly known as Mimulus aurantiacus. [2] [1] [3] [4] [5]
Mimulus / ˈ m ɪ m juː l ə s /, [1] also known as monkeyflowers, [2] is a plant genus in the family Phrymaceae, which was traditionally placed in family Scrophulariaceae. The genus now contains only seven species, two native to eastern North America and the other five native to Asia, Australia, Africa, or Madagascar. [ 3 ]
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]
Erythranthe, the monkey-flowers and musk-flowers, is a diverse plant genus with more than 120 members (as of 2022) in the family Phrymaceae. Erythranthe was originally described as a separate genus, then generally regarded as a section within the genus Mimulus, and recently returned to generic rank.
The flowers are trumpet-shaped and are usually white or pink with purple spots. Like most plants in and formerly in the genus Mimulus, the patterns on their flowers cause them to resemble a grinning monkey, hence the vernacular name 'monkey flower' for such plants. [2] [3] [6] This species can grow 30 cm wide and up to 20 cm tall. It is ...
Hemidesmus indicus, Indian sarsaparilla, is a species of plant found in South Asia.It occurs over the greater part of India, from the upper Gangetic plain eastwards to Assam and in some places in central, western and South India.
The generic name Acridotheres is from the Greek ακριδος (akridos), meaning locust, and θηρας (theras), meaning hunter. Two subspecies are recognised: [11] the Indian myna (A. t. tristis) (Linnaeus, 1766) – It is found from southern Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and eastern Iran to southern China, Indochina, the Malay Peninsula and ...
Mynas are not a natural group; [1] instead, the term myna is used for any starling in the Indian subcontinent, regardless of their relationships. This range was colonized twice during the evolution of starlings, first by rather ancestral starlings related to the coleto and Aplonis lineages, and millions of years later by birds related to the ...