Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : 7-13mm long
- Ovary : oblong, 4-7mm long x 1.5-2.5mm wide, strigillose, subnitid red purple
- Tube color : nitid red to orange red
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, puberulent outside, pubescent inside in lower part
- Tube dimensions : (28 to) 35-50 (to 55)mm long x slightly nodose and 2-3.5mm wide at the base, narrowed-1.5-3mm wide in lower ~ and widened above until 6-8mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : nitid red to orange red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lanceolate
- Sepal tips : acuminate, tips usually free in bud for 2 to 4 mm
- Sepal dimensions : (8 to) 10-20mm long x 4-6mm wide
- Corolla opening color : orange red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : elliptic to oblanceolate, acute at the apex, spreading at anthesis
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 9-15mm long x 4-6mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed, about 1.5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : orange red, 5-9mm x 4-5mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 2-3mm long x 1-1.5mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : sparsely villous in lower ~, orange red
- Stigma : capitate, tetragonous, 4-lobed in upper part, 2:-3mm long x 2-3mm wide, cream, exserted 1-4mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : few to many in a compact, terminal, drooping raceme, rachis 1 to 5 (to 8) cm long, bracts lanceolate, 8 to 18 mm long, reflexed
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : ellipsoid, 15-20mm long x 10-15mm wide, lustrous red purple
- Seed : 1.1-1.3mm long x 0.6-0.8mm wide
- Habit : subshrub
- Hardiness:
- Height : 0.5-1.5 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks :
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1943
- Botanist : Munz
- Authors : Munz 1973
- Original publication : Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. IV, 25: 51 1943
- Habitat : infrequent in moist, open thickets in cloud forest on eastern slopes of the Andes from Caqueta south to Putumayo
- Elevation : 1400-2200
- Native country : Colombia
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite, firmly membranous, petioles stout, sparsely strigose, 4 to 14 (to 17) mm long, red purple, stipules triangular, firm, dark purple, 1 to 2 mm long, about 1.5 mm wide, subpersistent
- Foliage color upper side : smooth and glossy
- Foliage color lower side : subglossy and finely strigillose below on veins and margins
- Leaf dimensions :
- Leaf shape : elliptic
- Leaf margin : subentire
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 8 to 12 on either side of the midvein, more-or-less impressed above, at times purple tinged below
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets terete to slightly flattened, 2 to 6 mm thick, subglabrous, green to reddish purple, older branches with light tan-gray bark