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
