Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : 7-30mm long
- Ovary : oblong, 5-7mm long x about 2mm wide
- Tube color : orange red to bright crimson
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, subglabrous to pubescent outside, pilose inside in Iower part
- Tube dimensions : 45-58mm long x about 3mm wide and slightly bulbous at the base, narrowed-about 2mm wide above the nectary and gradually widened above until 7-10mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : orange red to bright crimson
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lanceolate
- Sepal tips : acuminate
- Sepal dimensions : 16-18mm long x about 5mm wide, with a narrow tip 2.5-3.5mm long in bud
- Corolla opening color : red, often drying purplish
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : elliptic, obtuse to broadly acute at the apex
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 10-13mm long x 5-8mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed, about 2mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : light red, about 10mm x 6-7mm long
- Anthers : oblong, about 3mm long x about 2mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : red, glabrous
- Stigma : globose, 4-cleft apically, 2-3mm long x about 2mm wide, reddish
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : pendant, few to numerous, axillary or subracemose, but always tightly grouped at the branch tips
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- Habit : shrubs, young growth subglabrous to puberulent
- Hardiness:
- Height : 0.5-1.5 m
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- Remarks :
- Named : aften Bolivian province of Cochabambana
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1982
- Botanist : Berry P.E.
- Authors : Berry 1982
- Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 69: 184 1982
- Habitat : scattered to locally frequent in cloud forest in Cochabamba and Santa Cruz Departments
- Elevation : 2500-3100
- Native country : Bolivia
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : ternate or less often quaternate, subsessile, firmly membranous, petioles 1 to 3 mm long, stipules triangular, membranous when young to thick and recurved when old, 2 to 3 mm long, about 2 mm wide, subpersistent
- Foliage color upper side : subglabrous
- Foliage color lower side : subglabrous to usually puberulent along the veins and usually purple-flushed
- Leaf dimensions : 3-12cm long, x 1-5 cm wide
- Leaf shape : mostly elliptic or narrowly elliptic-lanceolate
- Leaf margin : conspicuously dentate or serrate
- Leaf tip : (sub to) acuminate
- Leaf base : acute to obtuse
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 11 to 14 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches :