Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : pedicel 18-30mm long
- Ovary : four-angled, 5-6mm long x 2-3mm wide
- Tube color : bright pink
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, sparsely strigose outside, densely pubescent inside in the lower narrowed portion
- Tube dimensions : (29 to) 32-45mm long x 2.5-3.5mm wide at the base, narrowed-2-2.5mm wide in the lower quarter, then gradually widened until 5-8mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : pink, green tips
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : narrowly triangular or lanceolate
- Sepal tips :
- Sepal dimensions : 12-15mm long x 4-5mm wide at the base
- Corolla opening color : orange
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : elliptic to obovate, broadly acute at the apex, sometimes with a small mucro
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 8-11mm long x 4-6mm wide
- Nectary : a doughnut-shaped ring 1-2mm high and 2-3mm wide at the base of the tube surrounding the style
- Stamens :
- Filaments : 10-12mm x 7-9mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 2-3mm long x 1-1.5mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : pink, 40-64 mm long, densely pubescent in lower third
- Stigma : pink, capitate, about 2mm high x about 2.5mm wide
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : axillary in the upper leaf axils, two to several per node
- Flower size :
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- Flower bud :
- Fruit : oblong-ellipsoid before maturity and subrotund when ripe, 9-15mm long x 5-9mm wide
- Seed : approximately 200 per berry, obtriangular in outline, 1.8-2.2mm long x 1.2-0.6mm wide
- Habit : erect to recumbent shrub, well-branched with mostly ascending branches, punescent young growth, trichomes 0.1 to 4.5 mm long and appressed to erect
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1.5-4 m
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- Remarks :
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1995
- Botanist : Berry P.E.
- Authors : Berry 1995
- Original publication : Novon 5: 318 1995
- Habitat : In thickets, along streams and along roadsides in pasture zones on moist mountain slopes in Azuay and Loja Provinces, Ecuador
- Elevation : 2300-3500
- Native country : Ecuador
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : mostly in whorls of three or four, sometimes opposite or subopposite, blade membranous, petiole strigose, (4 to) 6 to 25 mm long, stipules narrowly lanceolate when young, 1 to 1.5 mm long, about 0.2 mm wide, the tip quickly abscising and the thicker lower third persisting or abscising later
- Foliage color upper side : smooth, shiny, and light to dark green, subglabrous to sparsely strigose when young
- Foliage color lower side : paler green, subglabrous to sparsely strigose when young, trichomes persisting mainly along the midvein and secondary nerves when fully expanded
- Leaf dimensions : 3-9cm long x 1-3cm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly elliptic
- Leaf margin : nearly entire,usually with seven to ten glandular teeth projecting slightly from the edge especially in the upper half to two-thirds of the blade
- Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
- Leaf base : acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary nerves (5 to) 8 to 10 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets are terete to slightly angled. The older branches have purplish, exfoliating bark