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Mimulus aurantiacus
Curtis
subsp.
aurantiacus
Southern bush monkey flower
 Family:
Scrophulariaceae
Habit:
Erect, branched shrub 6 to 20 dm. tall with showy yellow
flowers.
Distribution:
Rocky places, foothills and in oak woodlands, with many local
forms throughout
California.
Seed unit:
Free seed.
Seed:
Fusiform, 1 mm. long, found in capsules 20 mm. long.
Embryo:
Small, linear in fleshy endosperm.
 Purity
instructions:
Pure seed definition:
AOSA: PSU#1 - Seed, with or without seed coat. Piece of
broken seed, with or without seed coat, larger than one-half the
original size.
Lab notes:
Seed should be removed from the capsule before planting;
capsule material is considered inert.
Average pure
seed units per gram:
27,398 seeds per gram (based on AOSA pure seed units only from
48 samples received for testing from 1992 to
2002).
Range of
percent pure seed:
1% to 9%
Range of
percent inert:
90% to 99%
Description
of inert:
Plant material
Planting
instructions:
400 seeds, TB, 21 days @ 15°C; for fresh and dormant seed,
15°C and GA3 recommended.
References:
(link
to main reference page)
Hickman, J.C., Ed. 1993. p. 1040
Munz, P.A. and D.D. Keck. 1968. p. 624.
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