Small Monkey-flower
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Regional Species Conservation Assessments per IBRA subregion.
Least concern
Near threatened
Rare
Vulnerable
Endangered
Critically endangered
Extinct
Data deficient
Adelaide
Arkaroola
Ceduna
Coober Pedy
Hawker
Innamincka
Marla
Marree
Mount Gambier
Oodnadatta
Renmark
Wudinna
Keith
Yunta
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South Olary Plain (MDD01) | Murray Darling Depression | Vulnerable (IUCN: VU B2ab(i,ii,iii); D2) (Probable Decline) [needs floods; some records not databased] |
Murray Scroll Belt (RIV06) | Riverina | Vulnerable (IUCN: VU B2ab(i,ii,iii)) (Probable Decline) [needs floods; some records not databased] |
Strzelecki Desert (SSD05) | Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields | Rare (IUCN: RA d(i,ii)) [limited habitat] |
Sturt Stony Desert (CHC02) | Channel Country | Near Threatened [mat-forming sp] |
Coongie (CHC06) | | Least Concern [mat-forming sp; strong-hold here] |
Botanical art
Kath Alcock painting: 1
Prior names
Mimulus prostratus
Common names
Small Monkey-flower
Etymology
Latin 'mimus' mimic actor; evidently alluding to a resemblance of the corolla mouth and limb to a mask and 'prostrata' prostrate
Distribution and status
Grows on the open margins of swamps, creeks or river flats, or in temporarily inundated areas, in clay or sand, sometimes saline soils. Found only in the far North East of South Australia.
Herbarium regions: Lake Eyre, Murray
AVH map: SA distribution map (external link)
Plant description
Prostrate annual or perennial, forming broad mats, rooting at the nodes. Leaves sessile, ovate to elliptic, sometimes narrowly, rarely broadly so, 0.2-0.6 cm long. Flowers solitary in axils. Corolla more or less rotate; tube 6–15 mm long, the rim white, the lobes spreading, 4-5 mm long, blue or pink, rarely white. Flowering July - September (Lake Eyre), April (Murray). Fruits are capsule obovoid, 4–5 mm long.
Seed collection and propagation
Collect seeds between October and November.
Location | No. of seeds (weight grams) | Number of plants | Date collected | Collection number Collection location | Date stored | % Viability | Storage temperature | BGA | 338,000 (2.71 g) | 100+ | 20-Oct-2011 | DJD2197 Murray | 1-Nov-2012 | 100% | +5°C, -18°C |
Location: BGA — the seeds are stored at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, MSB — the seeds are stored at the Millennium Seed Bank, Kew, England.
Number of plants: This is the number of plants from which the seeds were collected.
Collection location: The Herbarium of South Australia's region name.
% Viability: Percentage of filled healthy seeds determined by a cut test or x-ray.
Germination table:
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