Mimetanthe is a genus of flowering plants in the family Phrymaceae. It has only one species, Mimetanthe pilosa, synonym Mimulus pilosus, known by the common names false monkeyflower and downy mimetanthe. It is native to the western United States (Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington State) and Baja California, where it grows in moist and disturbed habitat types. This plant is different enough from other monkeyflowers that it is treated in its own monotypic genus, Mimetanthe, or it may be retained in Mimulus. It is an annual herb growing to a maximum height of about 35 centimeters. It is coated densely in long hairs. The oppositely arranged, narrow or wide lance-shaped leaves 1 to 3 centimeters long. The tubular base of the flower is encapsulated in a calyx of sepals. The yellow flower corolla is under a centimeter long, divided into five rounded lobes at the mouth, and often dotted with red in the throat.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Mimetanthe pilosa has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens5
Marker genes5
GenBank sequences3
eDNA detections1
Countries1
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★matK1★rbcL1★rbcLa★ITS1★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
07Deep time~47.2 Ma lineage
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
DNA clock origin47.2 Ma TimeTree
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type2 059 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 124
Museum / vouchered935
Origin
Native7
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO4 772 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy92% within 1 km
≤100 m 607≤1 km 71≤10 km 29>10 km 32
739 georeferenced · 385 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 124
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy67% within 1 km
≤100 m 75≤1 km 243≤10 km 152>10 km 5
475 georeferenced · 460 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence935
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions33 of 44 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
San Diego, US
241
Santa Barbara, US
83
Claremont, US
54
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
46
ASUlocation not on record
44
Bronx, US
44
Corvallis, US
33
Pullman, US
32
Davis, US
31
San Luis Obispo, US
29
Riverside, US
25
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
14
Flagstaff, US
13
Irvine, US
11
Phoenix, US
10
Logan, US
9
CASlocation not on record
8
Caldwell, US
7
Henderson, US
7
Wuzhou, CN
7
San Jose, US
5
WTUlocation not on record
5
Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalitionlocation not on record
5
Bloomington, US
3
Angwin, US
3
Tacoma, US
3
Santa Cruz, US
3
Boise, US
3
Moscow, US
3
US
3
Saint Louis, US
2
Provo, US
2
Long Beach, US
1
VALElocation not on record
1
Los Angeles, US
1
Clemson, US
1
Bangkok, TH
1
STNFlocation not on record
1
Pocatello, US
1
Fort Bragg, US
1
San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record
1
Bureau of Land Managementlocation not on record
1
Grand Junction, US
1
San Diego Natural History Museumlocation not on record
1
44 institutions · 800 of 935 vouchered records shown · 135 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA1 detections
Where the DNA of Mimetanthe pilosa was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found1
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 1 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
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How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median19.9 °C 19.9–19.9
Seasonal swing summer↔winter14.8 °C
Max temp (day)28.2 °C
Min temp (night)13.0 °C
Precipitation2.90 mm/mo
Air humidity49.2 %
Moisture balance-181 mm/mo
Vapour deficit1,190 Pa
Wind speed2.90 m/s
Cloud cover16.8 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
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ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗
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