Belongs within: Lamiales.
Contains: Mimulus section Paradanthus, Mimulus section Eunanus.
The Phrymaceae are a smaller group of herbs and subshrubs with tubular, bilaterally symmetrical flowers, most of which were historically classified within the related family Scrophulariaceae.
Characters (from the Jepson Herbarium): Annual to shrub. Stem with cross-section generally round. Leaves opposite, simple, generally entire or toothed; stipules absent. Inflorescence a spike, raceme, or panicle, bracted, or flowers 1–2 in axils. Flower bisexual; calyx radial or more or less bilateral, tube long, generally ribbed, lobes 5; corolla generally bilateral, generally 2-lipped, upper 2- (rarely 1-)lobed, lower 3-lobed; stamens 4 in 2 pairs, epipetalous, included or exserted; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers 1–2, placentas parietal or axile, style 1, stigma lobes 2, flat, folding together when touched. Fruit generally a capsule, generally ellipsoid, loculicidal (rarely indehiscent, 1-seeded).
<==Phrymaceae |--Phryma leptostachyaC55 |--Microcarpaea minimaLK14 `--Mimulus Linnaeus 1753BS04, A61 [=M. subg. MimulusBS04, M. subg. SynplacusBS04; Mimuleae, Mimulinae] | i. s.: M. prostratusBR65 | M. repens Br. 1810 [incl. M. colensoi Kirk 1871]A61 | M. strictus Benth. 1835SY72 |--M. sect. MimulusBS04 | |--M. uvedaliaeBS04 | | |--M. u. var. uvedaliaeLK14 | | `--M. u. var. luteaLK14 | `--+--M. gracilisBS04 | `--M. ringensBS04 `--+--+--Leucocarpus perfoliatusBS04 | `--M. sect. ParadanthusBS04 `--+--+--Berendtiella rugosaBS04 | `--Hemichaena fruticosaBS04 `--M. subg. SchizoplacusBS04 |--Mimulus (sect. Mimuloides) pilosus [=Mimetanthe pilosa]BS04 `--+--+--M. parryiBS04 | `--M. rupicolaBS04 `--+--M. sect. EunanusBS04 `--+--M. (sect. Mimulastrum) pictusBS04 `--M. sect. OenoeBS04 | i. s.: M. brandegeiBS04 | M. latifoliusBS04 | M. traskiaeBS04 |--+--M. pygmaeusBS04 | `--+--M. tricolorBS04 | `--+--M. angustatusBS04 | `--M. pulchellusBS04 `--+--+--M. torreyiBS04 | `--+--M. kelloggiiBS04 | `--+--M. congdoniiBS04 | `--M. douglasiiBS04 `--M. sect. DiplacusBS04 |--M. aridusBS04 |--M. aurantiacusBS04 (see below for synonymy) | |--M. a. ssp. aurantiacusBS04 | `--M. a. ssp. australisBS04 |--M. bifidusBS04 | |--M. b. ssp. bifidusBS04 | `--M. b. ssp. fasciculatusBS04 |--M. clevelandiiBS04 |--M. flemingiiBS04 |--M. longiflorusBS04 | |--M. l. ssp. longiflorusBS04 | `--M. l. ssp. calycinusBS04 `--M. puniceusBS04
Mimulus aurantiacusBS04 [incl. M. aurantiacus var. lompocensisH93, M. longiflorus var. rutilusH93]
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[A61] Allan, H. H. 1961. Flora of New Zealand vol. 1. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. R. E. Owen, Government Printer: Wellington (New Zealand).
[BS04] Beardsley, P. M., S. E. Schoenig, J. B. Whittall & R. G. Olmstead. 2004. Patterns of evolution in western North American Mimulus (Phrymaceae). American Journal of Botany 91 (3): 474–489.
[BR65] Black, J. M., & E. L. Robertson. 1965. Flora of South Australia. Part IV. Oleaceae–Compositae. W. L. Hawes, Government Printer: Adelaide.
[C55] Candolle, A. de. 1855. Géographie Botanique Raisonée: Ou exposition des faits principaux et des lois concernant la distribution géographique des plantes de l’époque actuelle vol. 2. Librairie de Victor Masson: Paris.
[H93] Hickman, J. C. (ed.) 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press: Berkeley (California).
[LK14] Lyons, M. N., G. J. Keighery, L. A. Gibson & T. Handasyde. 2014. Flora and vegetation communities of selected islands off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 81: 205–244.
[SY72] Shah, G. L., & D. V. Yogi. 1972. Nomenclatural changes in some Bombay plants—IV. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 69 (2): 444–449.