Ovary : cylindrical, 5-8mm long x 2-4mm wide, green, strigose
Tube color : subnitid scarlet pink
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, finely strigose outside, pilose inside in lower part
Tube dimensions : 32-46 (to 48)mm long x 3-5mm wide and bulbous at the base, narrowed-2-3mm wide above the nectary, then gradually widened above until 5-8mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : subnitid scarlet pink becoming dull purple towards the tip
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate
Sepal tips : acute, spreading at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 10-14mm long x 4-6mm wide, with a short tip 1-2mm long in bud
Corolla opening color : deep red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : narrowly elliptic-oblong, acute and more-or-less mucronate at the apex, spreading at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 11-16 (to 18)mm long x 3-5 (to 6)mm wide
Nectary : green, unlobed, about 2mm high, 0.8-1mm thick
Stamens :
Filaments : 7-11mm x 4-7mm long
Anthers : oblong, 2.5-3mm long x about 1.5mm wide, white
Pistil :
Style : glabrous, pink
Stigma : globose, four-parted at the apex, 3-4mm long x 2-3mm wide, bright red pink, exserted 3-8mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : numerous in terminal or subterminal racemes or verticillately branched panicles, rachis ridged, spreading to drooping, 5 to 30 cm long, bracts 8 to 20 mm long
Flower size :
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Flower bud :
Fruit : cylindric to subglobose when fully ripe, 13-15mm long x 9-13mm wide, nitid green to flushed purple
Seed : 1.5mm long x 0.8-1.1mm wide
Habit : suberect to scandent shrubs
Hardiness:
Height : 1-3 m
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Year (of first description) : 1982
Botanist : Berry P.E.
Authors : Berry 1982
Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 69: 181 1982
Habitat : an infrequent shrub in cloud forest thickets of the Nevado de Ruiz Massif in the Cordillera Central, in Tolima, Quindio, and Caldas Departments
Elevation : 2600-3000
Native country : Colombia
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : 3 to 6-verticillate, mostly in whorls of 4 or 5, firmly membranous, petioles stout, 2 to 3.5 mm thick, 12 to 40 mm long, sparsely strigose, green to pink red, stipules conspicuous, subtriangular, divergent, margins and tips recurved on lower nodes, separate to fully connate, thick-callose, 2.5 to 4 mm long, about 3mm wide when fresh, each stipule with a central longitudinal nerve 2 to 3 mm thick, considerably flattened and shrunken when dry, persistent
Foliage color upper side : sparsely strigose and velvety dark green
Foliage color lower side : strigose and paler to purple flushed, especially on and along the prominent midrib
Leaf dimensions : 6-16cm long x 2.5-7cm wide
Leaf shape : elliptic to broadly oblanceolate
Leaf margin : secondary veins 10 to 15 on either side of the midvein
Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
Leaf base : acute to obtuse
Pubescence :
Veins : glandular-serrulate and usually purple tinged
Stems :
Branches : young branches conspicuously 3 to 6ridged, one ridge for each leaf in the whorl above, 3 to 9 mm thick, green, strigillose to subcanescent, older branches terete with dull gray brown, exfoliating bark
