Pedicel : slender, pendant, pubescent, 6-16 (to 25)mm long
Ovary :
Tube color : nitid red or pink
Tube shape : subcylindric to narrowly funnelform, pilose to strigillose outside, glabrous inside
Tube dimensions : 15-28mm long x 3-4mm wide and somewhat bulbous at the base, then constricted-about 2mm wide above the nectary and widened gradually above until 4-6mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : nitid red or pink
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate
Sepal tips : acuminate, spreading-divergent at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 10-13mm long x about 3mm wide
Corolla opening color : red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : usually noticeably shorter than the sepals, lanceolate, acute, spreading at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 6-9mm long x 2-3mm wide
Nectary : 4-8-lobed, about 1.5mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : pink-red, 9-14mm x 6-10mm long
Anthers : oblong, 2-2.5mm long x 1-1.5mm wide, dull white
Pistil :
Style : light red, glabrous
Stigma : capitate, slightly 4-lobed, 1.5-2mm long and wide, exserted 2-4mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower :
Flowers : numerous and generally densely grouped in upper leaf axils or in racemes or many branched terminal panicles, rachis 3 to 14 cm long with reduced leaves 15 to 25 mm long subtending the flowers
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : subglobose, 9-10mm long x 5-9mm wide, red
Seed : tan, 1-1.2mm long x 0.7mm wide
Habit : erect to scandent shrubs with spreading branches. Young growth canescent to densely pilose, often becoming ferrugineous with age
Hardiness:
Height : 0.5-4 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks :
Named :
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1940
Botanist : Macbride J.F.
Authors : Macbride 1940
Original publication : Candollea 8: 25 1940
Habitat : in thickets, banks, and stream sides, and in Amazonas Department in upper cloud forest on the east side of the Jalca de Calla-Calla and in the mountains to the east of the Rio Utcubamba
Elevation : 2900-3400
Native country : northern Peru
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : whorled, mostly ternate or quaternate, occasionally opposite, membranous, strigillose above and along the veins below, basal leaves noticeably larger than the upper ones, petioles pubescent, 5 to 21 mm long, mostly reddish, stipules filiform, 2 to 3 mm long, about 0.4 mm wide, deciduous to semipersistent.
Foliage color upper side :
Foliage color lower side :
Leaf dimensions : 35-110mm long x 10-35mm wide
Leaf shape : elliptic to (ob to) lanceolate
Leaf margin : conspicuously denticulate or serrate
Leaf tip : acute
Leaf base : acute to attenuate
Pubescence :
Veins : undersurface visibly reticulate-veined, secondary veins 8 to 14 on either side of the midvein
Stems :
Branches : branchlets pilulose to tomentose, older branches 5 to 12 mm thick with tan, finely fissured bark
