Pedicel : stout, subtuberculate, pendant, hirtellous-canescent, 5-13mm long, dull green
Ovary : cylindrical, subtuberculate, 10-11mm long x 3-4mm wide, hirtellous, light green
Tube color : dull scarlet or orange red
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, firmly thick-spongy, 1-2 mm thick when fresh, hirtellous and finely striated-tuberculate outside, densely villous inside in the lower half
Tube dimensions : 34-50mm long x 3.5-5.5mm wide and slightly bulbous at the base, narrowed-3-4.5mm wide above the nectary, then gradually widened above until 5-9mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : dull scarlet or orange red becoming dull white or greenish toward the tip
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : similarly thick-tuberculate, triangular, buds tetragonous in transection, 1 to 2 mm wider at the base than the rim of the tube and with small protuberances at the base of adjacent sepals
Sepal tips : spreading to divergent at anthesis, obtuse or shortly pointed
Sepal dimensions : 14-18mm long x 6-9mm wide
Corolla opening color : dark red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : subtrullate, margin slightly undulate, spreading to slightly recurved at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 14-19mm long x 4-7mm wide
Nectary : light green, irregularly quadri-lobed, 1.5-2mm high, about 1mm thick, often with a few erect, stiff hairs on the top
Stamens :
Filaments : red, 9-12mm x 5-8mm long
Anthers : oblong, 3-4.5mm long x 1.5-2mm wide
Pistil :
Style : orange red, glabrous
Stigma : capitate, four-parted at the apex, 2.5-3mm long x about 2mm wide, red-light pink, exserted 4-9mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower :
Flowers : few to many in upper, leafy nodes or in terminal to subterminal, leafy racemes, rachis 2 to 10 cm long
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : ellipsoid, 12-15mm long x 8-10mm wide, subtuberculate, green to flushed purple
Seed : 1.5mm long x 0.6-0.8mm wide
Habit : shrub with reddish young branches, ridged with the same number of ridges as leaves in the whorl
Hardiness:
Height : 1.5-4 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks :
Named : becoming grey, greyish’
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1845
Botanist : Bentham
Authors : Bentham 1845
Original publication : Pl. Hartw. 179 1845
Habitat : infrequent in wet subpáramo or upper cloud forest in Cauca, Huila, and Nariño Provinces
Elevation : 2800-3350
Native country : Colombia
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : three to five-verticillate, mostly quaternate, firmly membranous, petioles stout, 15 to 25 mm long, hirtellous, dull purple, stipules 0.8 to 1 mm thick when fresh, lingulate to subterete in transection, subulate at the tip, 1.5 to 2 mm long, about 0.8 mm wide, divergent, occasionally connate, hirtellous, subpersistent
Foliage color upper side : medium to dark green and strigillose
Foliage color lower side : hirtellous to densely strigillose and paler green, with the midvein prominent and reddish
Leaf dimensions : 4.5-10cm long x 2-5cm wide
Leaf shape : (narrowly) elliptic to (ob-)ovate
Leaf margin : subentire to denticulate
Leaf tip : acute to rounded
Leaf base : acute to rounded
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 8 to 15 on either side of the midvein
Stems :
Branches : canescent to hirtellous, reddish, 38 mm thick, and tan older branches with exfoliating bark
