Tube dimensions : 42-50mm long x 3-3.5 (to 4)mm wide and slightly bulbous at the base, 2-2.5 (to 3)mm wide above the nectary, then gradually widened above until 5-6 (to 8)mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : dull orange
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : narrowly lanceolate
Sepal tips : acute at the apex, spreading at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 15-19mm long x 3-4mm wide
Corolla opening color : orange to crimson
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : oblong to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse to acute at the apex, spreading at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 12-15mm long x 4-4.5mm wide
Nectary : quadri-lobed, about 1.5mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : orange red, 10-11mm x 7-8mm long
Anthers : oblong, 2.5-3mm long x about 1.5mm wide, cream
Pistil :
Style : strigose from the base-near the rim of the tube
Stigma : globose, slightly quadri-lobed at the apex, about 2mm long x 2-3mm wide, orange red, exserted 4-10mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : axillary, pendant, usually in whorls of three or four
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : ellipsoid to subglobose at maturity, canescent to velutinous, 12mm long x 10mm wide
Seed : 1.7-1.8mm long x 1mm wide
Habit : erect to scandent, deciduous shrub with densely cinereous-strigillose young growth
Hardiness:
Height : 2-5 m
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Remarks :
Named :
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Year (of first description) : 1982
Botanist : Berry P.E.
Authors : Berry 1982
Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 69: 184 1982
Habitat : known only from the base of Volcán Chiles along the Colombian-Ecuadorian border
Elevation : 3100-3250
Native country : Colombia, Ecuador
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : quaternate or less often temate, membranous, petioles strigillose, 5 to 12 (to 20) mm long, stipules lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 mm long, about 0.5 mm wide, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : matte light green and strigillose
Foliage color lower side : paler and strigillose
Leaf dimensions : 2-5(-7)cm long x 1-2(-3)cm wide
Leaf shape : narrowly elliptic
Leaf margin : subdenticulate
Leaf tip : acute to obtuse
Leaf base : acute
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 5 to 8 (to 9) on either side of the midrib, usually reddish brown
Stems :
Branches : angled branchlets, 1 to 2.5 mm thick, and terete older branches with tan bark
