Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Tube color :
- Tube shape :
- Tube dimensions :
- Sepal color upper :
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape :
- Sepal tips :
- Sepal dimensions :
- Corolla opening color :
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
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- Nectary :
- Stamens :
- Filaments :
- Anthers :
- Pistil :
- Style :
- Stigma :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : staminate flowers, pedicels 5 to 22 mm long, floral tube cylindrical, glabrous, magenta, 9 to 11 mm long, 2 to 4 mm wide at the rim, 1.5 to 2 mm wide at the base, sepals triangular, 3 to 4 mm long, 2 to 2.5 mm wide at the base, spreading, the apex shortly acuminate, petals magenta, subrotund, 2 to 3 mm long, 2 to 3 mm wide, slightly three-lobed at the apex, nectary 0.9 to 11 mm high, entire, style 6 to 10 mm long, included within the floral tube, the stigma inconspicuous, aborted, antesepalous stamens exserted above the rim of the tube, antepetalous ones included inside the floral tube, filaments 1.0-1.5 mm long, anthers oblong 1.6 to 2.0 mm long, 0.7 to 1.0 mm thick. pistilate flowers, pedicels 4 to 7 mm long, ovary spherical circa 2 mm in diameter, floral tube narrowly cylindric, 5 to 7 mm long, 2 to 2.5 mm wide at the rim, ca. 1mm wide at the base, sepals triangular, 2.5 mm long, 1.5 to 2 mm wide at the base, petals 1.3 to 2 mm long, 1 to 1.3 mm wide, sterile anthers oblong, 0.5 to 0.8 mm long, filaments 0.2 to 0.6 mm
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : subglobose, 4-5.5mm wide
- Seed : 12-18 per berry, 1.5-2.0mm long x 0.9-1.1mm wide
- Habit :
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-2 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : dioecious
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1996
- Botanist : Berry P.E. & Breedlove
- Authors : P.E.Berry & Breedlove 1996
- Original publication : Novon 6(2): 139, f. 3. 1996
- Habitat : abundant in wet pine-oak forests and in cloud forests along the crest of the Sierra Madre of Guerrero, Michoacán, and Oaxaca, in Mexico. It is mainly found above 2,000 meters in elevation, usually between 2,200 and 2,500 meters, but can occasionally range up to 3,000 meters
- Elevation : 2200-3000
- Native country : Mexico
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite, firmly membranous, glabrous on both sides or sometimes with fine appressed hairs along veins or margins on lower surface, sometimes + revolute, petiole 4 to 10 mm long, stipules narrowly lanceolate, dark brown. ca. 0.3 mm wide, 0.5 to 0.7 mm long, deciduous
- Foliage color upper side :
- Foliage color lower side :
- Leaf dimensions : 15-40(-50)mm long x 7-15mm wide
- Leaf shape : lance-elliptic
- Leaf margin : subentire to serrulate
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : attenuate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 4 to 6 on either side of the midvein or sometimes inconspicuous
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets 4 to 18 cm long, emerging at a + 90′ angle from the main stem, subglabrous to finely appressed-pubescent with tan hairs 0.2 to 0.4 mrn long