Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, pendant, 12-30mm long
- Ovary : oblong, about 3mm long
- Tube color : dark red to deep violet (blue red)
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, strigillose to pilose outside, glabrous inside
- 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