Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : densely pilose, greenish pink, 7-30 (to 60)mm long
- Ovary : narrowly cylindric, 7-8mm long x 2-2.5mm wide, densely pilose
- Tube color : light to very pale pink, with a dark purple ring on the throat where the stamens are inserted
- Tube shape : narrowly tubular-funnelform, pilose outside, villous inside for most of length
- Tube dimensions : (45 to) 70-140mm long x 3.5-6 (to 7)mm wide and bulbous at the base, then constricted-2-2.5mm wide and gradually widened above until 7-10mm wide below the slightly constricted mouth
- Sepal color upper : light to very pale pink
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lance-ovate, connate for about third of length at the base
- Sepal tips : acute, spreading divergent at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 10-18mm long x 5.5-7 (to 8)mm wide
- Corolla opening color : orange
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions :
- Nectary : lustrous green-purple, 4-6mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : green, the antesepalous ones 10-12mm long, the antepetalous ones 8-9mm long
- Anthers : yellow, 3-4mm long x 1.5-2mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : light pink, villous for most of the length
- Stigma : green, globose, 2-2.5mm long x 2.5-3mm wide
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : few to many, axillary or grouped at branch tips
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : young berries narrow cylindric, 22mm long x 4mm wide
- Seed :
- Habit : shrubs , growing epiphytically or more commonly out of rock crevices, with strongly developed cylindrical tubers 10 to 80 cm long and 2 to 4 cm thick and more or less erect branches one to two and one half meters long
- Hardiness:
- Height : 0.5-4 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : flowers appear principally in the dry season, when the plant leafless, from March/April to August
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1893
- Botanist : Kuntze & Wittmack
- Authors : Kuntze & Wittmack 1893
- Original publication : Gartenflora 42: 461 1893
- Habitat : endemic to cloud forest in Cochabamba Department
- Elevation : 2500-2950
- Native country : Bolivia
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : alternate, usually absent at anthesis, membranous, petioles pilose, 40 to 73 mm long on mature leaves, stipules filiform, about 2 mm long, deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : light green and subglabrous
- Foliage color lower side : pilose along veins and margin
- Leaf dimensions : 90-130mm long x 55-75mm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate to ellipticovate
- Leaf margin : subentire to remotely denticulate
- Leaf tip : subacuminate
- Leaf base : rounded to cordate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 9 to 10 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : young growth densely white-pilose, branchlets terete, 2 to 4 mm thick, red-green, older stems 4 to 10 mm thick, with freely exfoliating bark