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
