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 :
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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
