Tube shape : narrowly funnelform or subcylindric, puberulent outside, densely pilose inside in the narrowed part of the tube
Tube dimensions : 40-50mm long x 3-4mm wide and nodose at the base, narrowed-2.5-3mm wide in basal ~, then gradually widened above until 5-8mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : orange red to scarlet
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lance-oblong
Sepal tips : obtuse to shortly acute-tipped, spreading at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 12-13mm long x 4-5mm wide
Corolla opening color : orange red to scarlet with dull green tips
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : narrowly lanceolate, acute at the apex, spreading to more-or-less recurved at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 12-14mm long x 3-4mm wide
Nectary : irregularly 4-lobed, 1-2mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : red, 9-11mm x 5-7mm long
Anthers : oblong, 2.5-3mm long x 1.5-2mm wide, cream
Pistil :
Style : totally glabrous, light red
Stigma : capitate-subobconic, slightly 4parted at the apex, 2-2.5mm long x 1.5-2mm wide, dull pink, exserted 3-10mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : numerous in dense, drooping, terminal panicles or series of terminal and subterminal, corymbiform racemes, rachis 2 to 6 cm long when young, 8 to 25 cm long in fruit, bracts elliptic, 5 to 20 mm long, 3 to 10 mm wide, short-petiolate, sometimes reflexed
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : ellipsoid, puberulent, 12-16mm long x 7-12mm wide
Seed : tan brown, 1-1.2mm long x 0.6mm wide
Habit : erect to usually scandent-climbing shrub, with arching to hanging branches 0.5 to 3 meters long
Hardiness:
Height : 2-10 m
Light/Climate :
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Remarks :
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Year (of first description) : 1837
Botanist : Hooker
Authors : Hooker 1837
Original publication : Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 1: t. 65 1837
Habitat : in cloud forest on the west slopes of the Cordillera Occidental of the Northern Andes from Carchi to Pichincha and on the east slopes of the Cordillera Central in Imbabura and Carchi, also in the drier Central Valley of Ecuador from Pichincha to Carchi and in the Nudo de Pasto area in Nariño, Colombia, occurring commonly in hedgerows
Elevation : 2400-3300
Native country : Ecuador, Colombia
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : mostly quaternate, rarely in whorls of three or five, membranous, petioles puberulent, reddish, 1/5- 1/3 the length of the blade, 14 to 35 mm long, stipules lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 mm long, 0.4 to 0.5 mm wide, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : dull green and strigillose
Foliage color lower side : incanous and paler green, especially when dry
Leaf dimensions : 5-14(-15)cm long x 2-5(-6)cm wide
Leaf shape : narrowly elliptic to ovate
Leaf margin : usually undulate and conspicuously glandular-denticulate
Leaf tip : acute
Leaf base : acute
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 11 to 14 (to 16) on either side of the midvein, more-or-less impressed above and prominent below, midrib reddish
Stems :
Branches : banchlets canescent, dull red, 2 to 8 mm thick, with tan bark exfoliating in longitudinal strips
