Synonyms: Mimetanthe APNI*
Description: Perennial or annual herbs, conspicuously or obscurely gland-dotted.
Leaves opposite or whorled, simple, sessile or petiolate, often joined across at nodes.
Inflorescences solitary-flowered or racemes with flowers single in the axils of leaf-like bracts; bracteoles absent. Calyx tube 5-angled; shortly 5-toothed. Corolla 5-lobed, ± rotate or 2-lipped; tube symmetrical at base, neither swollen nor spurred; upper lip 2-lobed; lower 3-lobed, longer, with a palate. Stamens 4, didynamous; filaments not spurred; anthers of each pair joined, with 2 confluent but divergent loculi; staminodes absent. Stigma with 2 broad equal flaps, receptive on the inner surface and irritable, closing together when touched.
Capsule loculicidal, included in enlarged calyx; septa united to the 2 valves and to the central column; seeds many, not winged.
Distribution and occurrence: World: 7 species, America, Australia, Africa Asia, Madagascar & India. Australia: 2 species .
Text by W. R. Barker & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept:
| One species in NSW: Mimulus gracilis |
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