Pedicel : usually tuberculate, red, 14-35 (to 55)mm long
Ovary : tetragonous, 6-8mm long x 1.5-2mm wide
Tube color : scarlet
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, walls ca. 1 mm thick, often more or less verrucose, glabrous to densely pilose outside, (densely) villous inside in lower parts
Tube dimensions : (25 to) 34-50mm long x 4-6mm wide at the base, then narrowed-2-5mm wide for lower ~, widened above until 10-12mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : scarlet, the tips sometimes dull purple green
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate,thick-spongy, circa 1.5 mm thick when fresh, often verrucose
Sepal tips : acute to acuminate, spreading to divergent at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 15-20mm long x 5-7mm wide
Corolla opening color : deep red, usually drying a uniform purple
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : elliptic-obovate to suborbicular, rounded to broadly acute at the apex, spreading at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 12-17mm long x (7 to) 8-13mm wide
Nectary : deeply four-lobed-unlobed, circa 2mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : red, 10-14mm x 7-10mm long
Anthers : oblong, 3.5-4.5mm long x 2-3mm wide, white
Pistil :
Style : red, glabrous or with a few hairs
Stigma : subglobose, four-cleft at the apex, 2-2.5mm long x ca. 3mm wide, red pink, exserted 1-10mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : generally few and pendant from upper leafaxils
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : ellipsoid, reddish, tetragonous before maturity, 16-18mm long x 8-11mm wide
Seed : tan, 1.4-1.7mm long x 0.8-1.1mm wide
Habit : erect to occasionally climbing shrub with subcanescent to whitish-pilose young growth
Hardiness:
Height : 2-4 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks :
Named : southern mountains’
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1939
Botanist : Johnston I.M.
Authors : Johnston 1939
Original publication : J. Arnold Arbor. 20: 242 1939
Habitat : upper cloud forest from southern Cuzco Department in Peru to just beyond the Bolivian border in La Paz Department, Bolivia
Elevation : 2600-3500
Native country : southern Peru, Bolivia
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : three- to five-verticillate, firmly membranous, petioles 3 to 12 mm long, reddish, densely pilose to lightly pubescent, stipules linear-lanceolate, 2 to 4 mm long, 0.5 to 1 mm wide, subpersistent.
Foliage color upper side : dark green and subglabrous
Foliage color lower side : pale green and pubescent, hairs usually denser along the midvein
Leaf dimensions : 2.5-8cm long x 1-3cm wide
Leaf shape :
Leaf margin : subentire to denticulate and sometimes slightly revolute
Leaf tip : acuminate
Leaf base : acute to obtuse
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 5 to 9 on either side of the midvein
