Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, pubescent, 15-40mm long, lengthening considerably from bud-fruit
- Ovary : ellipsoid-oblong, 5-8mm long x 2-3mm wide, densely pubescent
- Tube color : dull pink to lavender or orange red
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, hispidulous outside, villous inside for most its length
- Tube dimensions : (22 to) 25-48mm long x 2-3mm wide and slightly nodose at the base, constricted-1.5-2mm wide above the nectary, gradually widened above until 6-9mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : light red but becoming. pale white toward the tips
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lanceolate
- Sepal tips : mostly long acuminate with free tips in bud for 1 to 3 mm, spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 10-18mm long x 3-5mm wide
- Corolla opening color : bright pink red to dark red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : elliptic-ovate, mostly about half as long as the sepals, acute at the apex, suberect at anthesis
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 6-10mm long x 3-5mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed or shallowly 4-lobed, about 1.5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : lavender, 7-8mm x 4-5mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 2-3mm long x 1-1.5mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : villous from the base-near the rim of the tube
- Stigma : capitate, 4-cleft at the apex, 2-3mm long x 2-3mm wide, white
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : few and pendant in short, corymbiform, terminal racemes, rachis 1.5 to 5 cm long with bracts 10 to 25 mm long
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : ovoid-ellipsoid, becoming subglobose when fully ripe, 12-16mm long x 6-12mm wide, pubescent
- Seed : 1.5 mm long x 1mm wide
- Habit : erect to scandent shrubs
- Hardiness:
- Height : 0.5-2.5 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks :
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1925
- Botanist : Johnston I.M.
- Authors : Johnston 1925
- Original publication : Contr. Gray Herb. 75: 39 1925
- Habitat : rare mostly in dripping wet sites, such as cliff overhangs and along rivulets, in the cloud forests of La Paz and Cochabamba Departments
- Elevation : 2800-3050
- Native country : Bolivia
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite or rarely temate, membranous, petioles pubescent, 2 to 5 (to 7) cm long, stipules lance-linear, acuminate, dark, 2 to 3 mm long, 0.2 to 0.4 mm wide
- Foliage color upper side : matte dark green and hispidulous-strigose
- Foliage color lower side : slightly paler to flushed purple and hispidulous, especially along the nerves
- Leaf dimensions : 6-15(-17)cm long x 3-6(-7)cm wide
- Leaf shape : elliptic-ovate
- Leaf margin : serrulate to denticulate
- Leaf tip : acuminate and often curved
- Leaf base : rounded to acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 9 to 14 on either side of the midvein, subelevated below
- Stems :
- Branches : young growth densely hispidulous to tomentose with suberect, whitish hairs often becoming tan or ferrugineous with age or drying, branchlets subterete, 2 to 4 mm thick, green or reddish, older branches 5 to 10 mm thick, loosely hirtellous, with smooth, purple tan bark