Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : 7-15mm long
- Ovary : ellipsoid, about 7mm long x about 3mm wide
- Tube color : lavender to bright pink, white inside
- Tube shape : subcylindric to narrowly funnelform, puberulent to subglabrous outside, pubescent inside in lower part
- Tube dimensions : (9 to) 10-13 cm long x bulbous and 6-7mm wide at the base, narrowed-3-5mm wide above the nectary, slightly widened above until 8-9mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : lavender to bright pink
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lanceolate
- Sepal tips : acuminate, suberect at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 28-30mm long x 6-7mm wide
- Corolla opening color : crimson to dark purple
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- Corolla shape : ovate, broadly acute, suberect at anthesis
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- Corolla dimensions : 5-7mm long x about 4mm wide
- Nectary : light green, unlobed, about 3mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : white pink, 13-14mm x 9-10mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 4-5
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : held in simple, pendant, involucrate racemes, with two to three flowers per whorl and internodes 2 to 6 cm long, bracts thin membranous, concave, sessile, pruinose, broadly ovate, acuminate at the apex, clasping the stem at the base, 4 to 12 cm long, 1.5 to 5 cm wide,
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- Habit : climbing shrub or dangling liana in trees to 6 m above ground, the ultimate branches are pendant, the plants are glabrous except for the puberulent young flowers and pedicels
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- Remarks :
- Named : waxy, like bees-wax’
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- Year (of first description) : 1982
- Botanist : Berry P.E.
- Authors : Berry 1982
- Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 69: 149 1982
- Habitat : very rare climber in cloud forest, known just from Panao and the Carpish area of Huánuco Department, Peru
- Elevation : 2500-2850
- Native country : Peru
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite or ternate, firmly membranous, petioles reddish, slightly twisted, 2 to 20 mm long. the stipules are arrowly triangular, 1.5 to 2 mm long, about 0.7 mm wide, subpersistent
- Foliage color upper side : waxy green
- Foliage color lower side : waxy green
- Leaf dimensions : 8-15cm long x 4-6cm wide
- Leaf shape : lanceolate to narrowly ovate
- Leaf margin : entire
- Leaf tip : acuminate
- Leaf base : obtuse to unequal or slightly auriculate
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- Veins : secondary veins 7 to 10 on either side of the midvein
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