Thyridia repens
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|image =Mimulus repens R.Br. (AM AK300914-2).jpg
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|genus = Thyridia (plant)
|parent_authority = W.R.Barker & Beardsley
|species = repens
|authority = (R.Br.) W.R.Barker & Beardsley
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Thyridia repens, with common names creeping monkeyflower,{{citation |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Thyridia~repens |title=PlantNET: New South Wales Flora Online |access-date=9 February 2017}} Native musk, Maori musk, and native monkey flower, is a herbaceous succulent plant native to New Zealand and Australia that grows as low mats.{{citation |chapter-url=http://www.nzpcn.org.nz/flora_details.aspx?ID=286 |title=New Zealand Plant Conservation Network |chapter=Thyridia repens |access-date=9 February 2017}} Its flowers are light purple or white. It is the only species in the genus Thyridia.
Taxonomy
Thyridia is one of several genera that have been separated from an earlier concept of Mimulus as a large genus within family Phrymaceae.{{cite journal|last=Beardsley|first=Paul M.|author2=Olmstead, Richard G.|title=Redefining Phrymaceae: the placement of Mimulus, tribe Mimuleae, and Phryma |journal=American Journal of Botany |date=July 2002 |volume=89|issue=7 |pages=1093–1102 |doi=10.3732/ajb.89.7.1093 |pmid=21665709}}
References
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