Ovary : lightly four- or eight-angled, 5-6mm long x 2-3mm wide, strigose
Tube color : red
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, four- or eight-angled in cross-section, loosely strigose outside, villous in lower half inside
Tube dimensions : 20-25 (to 30)mm long x 2-2.3mm wide and slightly bulbous at the base, 4-6mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : red
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : narrowly lanceolate, strigose on the outside
Sepal tips : apiculate
Sepal dimensions : (9 to) 12-15mm long x 3-5mm wide at the base
Corolla opening color : red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : broadly elliptic to suborbicular, spreading at anthesis, rounded to mucronate at the apex, cuneate at the base
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 8-11mm long x 6-9mm wide
Nectary : a doughnut-shaped ring ca. 1.5mm high and 2mm wide at the base of the tube surrounding the style
Stamens :
Filaments : 5-6mm x 3-4mm long
Anthers : broadly oblong, circa 2mm long and 1.5mm wide, pollen white at dehiscence
Pistil :
Style : red, 28-36 mm long, villous in lower half
Stigma : whitish pink, capitate, slightly four-cleft at the apex, circa 2mm high by 2mm wide
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : axillary and pendent in the upper leaf axils, uniformly red, two or three per node, the young buds canescent and usually held erect by the emerging leaves
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : ellipsoid, somewhat four- or eight-angled before fully mature, 10-13mm long x 7-8mm wide
Seed : flattened seeds are semilunar in outline, 1.4-1.7mm long x 1mm wide
Habit : well-branched shrub
Hardiness:
Height : 0.8-1.2 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : found in 1988 by Berry P.E. and Brako L., flowers are approximately 4 cm in length
Named : named after Dave Green and Eileen Waters
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 2007
Botanist : Berry P.E.
Authors : Berry 2007
Original publication : Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 25: 167 2007
Habitat : found in moist thickets in cloud forest and on humid slopes of Cerro Toledo east of Yangana and east of the Nudo de Cajanuma in Parque Nacional Podocarpus, Loja Province
Elevation : 2800-3100
Native country : Ecuador
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = unknown
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite, three or occasionally four-whorled, blade membranous, petiole 5 to 13 (to 20) mm long, stipules awl-shaped, 2 to 2.5 mm long, 0.3 to 0.5 mm wide, persistent, drying dark
Foliage color upper side : lustrous dark green
Foliage color lower side : paler green
Leaf dimensions : 30-60(to120)mm long x (15-) 20-25(-40)mm wide
Leaf shape : elliptic to narrowly elliptic
Leaf margin : gland-denticulate with trichomes between the teeth
Leaf tip : acute to narrowly acute
Leaf base : acute, with whitish strigose trichomes loosely dispersed along the veins on both surfaces
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary nerves 7 to 10 (to 12) on either side of the midvein
Stems :
Branches : branches are leafy along most of the stem with internodes 5 to 20 (to 60) mm long, lower stems that have somewhat protruding leaf scars and young growth that is conspicuously canescent-strigose
