Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : strigillose, (4 to) 8-20mm long
- Ovary : ellipsoid-subpyriform, 5-8mm long x 2-3mm wide, densely cinereous
- Tube color : dull orange
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, strigillose to pilose outside, pubescent inside
- 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
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- 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 :
- Lookalikes :
- 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