Pedicel : slender, arching-pendant, pubescent, 4-12mm long
Ovary : ellipsoid, strigose-pilose, 3.5-5mm long x 1.5-2mm wide
Tube color : subnitid orange red to bright crimson
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, strigose to pilose outside, densely villous inside in the lower half
Tube dimensions : 13-20 (to 24)mm long x 1.5-3mm wide and bulbous at the base, constricted-1-2mm wide above the nectary and gradually widened above until 2-5mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : subnitid orange red to bright crimson
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate, forming a short tip in bud
Sepal tips : acute, spreading at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 7-12mm long x 2.5-4mm wide
Corolla opening color : red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : very narrowly elliptic, narrowly acute at the apex
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Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 5-9mm long x 1.5-3mm wide
Nectary : green, unlobed, 1.5-2mm high, about 0.8mm thick
Stamens :
Filaments : red, 5-8mm x 3-5mm long
Anthers : oblong, 1.5-2mm long x 0.7-1mm wide, white, abortive ones about half as large and non-dehiscing
Pistil :
Style : glabrous, red
Stigma : subglobose, barely four-parted at the apex, 1-1.5mm long x 1-1.5mm wide, pale red, exserted 3-6mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : hermaphroditic or gynodioecious, numerous, fasciculate, racemose, or more commonly paniculate at the branch tips, rachis 5 to 20 cm long, bracts broadly ovate, sometimes sessile, 6 to 20 mm long, 3 to 15 mm wide
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Fruit : globose when ripe, 6-9mm long x 5-8mm wide, nitid purple red
Seed : tan to reddish brown, 1.1-1.3mm long x 0.7mm wide
Habit : low shrubs or small trees or scandent-climbing in thickets or trees to 8 meters above the ground, young growth usually canescent
Hardiness:
Height : 0.5-4 m
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Year (of first description) : 1845
Botanist : Bentham
Authors : Bentham 1845
Original publication : Pl. Hartw. 179 1845
Habitat : most common in the Cordillera Central from southern Valle to Putumayo, as a scandent or hedgerow shrub, in cloud forest at elevations between 2,350 and 2,750 meters, present farther north in the Cordillera Central around 3,000 meters in Caldas, Tolima, and southern Antioquia, and with a few collections known from the Cordillera Oriental in Huila and Cundinamarca at elevations from 2,100 to 2,300 meters
Elevation : 2100-3000
Native country : Colombia
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : mostly quaternate, occasionally up to seven per whorl, firmly membranous, petioles hirtellous to strigose, 5 to 32 mm long, stipules lanceolate, thick at the base, filiform at the tip, 1 to 2 mm long, about 0.6 mm wide,deciduous
Foliage color upper side : subnitid dark green and strigose to subglabrous
Foliage color lower side : pale green and hirtellous to strigose, especially along the veins
Leaf dimensions : 3-15.5cm long x 1.5-5.5cm wide
Leaf shape : narrowly to rather broadly elliptic or oblanceolate
Leaf margin : glandular-denticulate
Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
Leaf base : acute to attenuate
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 8 to 14 on either side of the midvein, impressed above, prominent and reddish below
Stems :
Branches : branchlets 2 to 4 mm thick, subterete, reddish, hirtellous to strigose, older branches erect or arching-flexuous on scandent bushes, 0.5 to 3 meters long, 8 to 50 mm thick, with tan gray, flaking bark
