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
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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
