Tube dimensions : (15 to) 22-28mm long x 3-4mm wide and conspicuously nodose at the base, then more-or-less abruptly narrowed-about 2mm wide above the nectary and gradually widened above until (6 to) 8-9mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : dark red to deep violet (blue red)
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : narrowly lanceolate, often with free tips in bud
Sepal tips : acuminate, divergent at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : (10 to) 14-16mm long x about 3mm wide
Corolla opening color : red to violet
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : elliptic, usually about half as long as the sepals, acute at the apex
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 7-9mm long x about 3mm wide
Nectary : unlobed, about 1.5mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : red-violet, 9-13mm x 5-9mm long
Anthers : oblong, about 2mm long x about 1.5mm wide
Pistil :
Style : glabrous, red-violet
Stigma : capitate, about 2mm long and wide, slightly 4-10bed, dull white
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower :
Flowers : axillary and numerous towards the branch tips
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : ellipsoid to subglobose, 12mm long x 8mm wide, lustrous purple
Seed : 1-1.2mm long x 0.6mm wide
Habit : erect to climbing-scandent shrubs with horizontally divergent to arcuate branches one half to one and a half meters long
Hardiness:
Height : 1-3 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks :
Named : after plant collector Ramon Ferreyra (1910-2005)
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1982
Botanist : Berry P.E.
Authors : Berry 1982
Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 69: 79 1982
Habitat : locally frequent in openings of the cloud forest from San Martín to Junín Departments
Elevation : 2600-3150
Native country : central Peru
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : in whorls of three or four, occasionally opposite or subopposite, membranous, petiole pubescent, 4 to 12mm long, stipules filiform, 2 to 4 mm long, about 0.4 mm wide, deciduous.
Foliage color upper side : velvety dark green and strigillose
Foliage color lower side : strigose especially along veins and often flushed with a bluish tinge
Leaf dimensions : 2-8cm long x 1-3cm wide
Leaf shape : elliptic to obovate
Leaf margin : moderately to strongly glandular-serrulate
Leaf tip : acute
Leaf base : acute to attenuate
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 6 to 10 on either side of the midvein, higher order veins reticulate and usually visible without magnification
Stems :
Branches : branchlets subcanescent to coarsely strigose with reddish hairs, older branches with finely fissured, dull tan to coppery bark
