Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : pedicel 15-30mm long
- 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