Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : 3-12mm long, mostly glabrous
- Ovary : oblong, 7-9mm long x 2-3mm wide
- Tube color : red to orange red
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, glabrous outside, densely pubescent inside for most of length
- Tube dimensions : 22-35 (to 40)mm long x about 2mm wide at the base, slightly constricted above the nectary, then gradually widened above until 6-7mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : red to orange red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : oblong-lanceolate
- Sepal tips : shortly acute-tipped, subtetragonous in bud, spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 8 to 11 mm long, 4 to 5 mm wide
- Corolla opening color : dark red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : broadly elliptic-obovate, rounded at the apex
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 7-11mm long x 5-6mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed, about 1.5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : red, 5-6mm x 3-4mm long
- Anthers : oblong, about 2mm long x about 1mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : densely pilose or occasionally glabrous
- Stigma : capitate, subtetragonous, about 2mm long x about 3mm wide, 4lobed apically, shortly exserted beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : 3-ca. 15in terminal, bracteate, drooping racemes, rachis 2 to 4 cm long or occasionally extending 6 to 12 cm long in fruit, bracts sessile, lanceolate, 10 to 30 mm long, subtending the alternately disposed flowers
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : oblong, 15mm long x 7-9mm wide
- Seed : 2mm long x 1mm wide
- Habit : simple to few-branched shrubs
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-3m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : flowers are 5cm long
- Named : because of the total lack of pubescence on the leaves
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1925
- Botanist : Johnston I.M.
- Authors : Johnston 1925
- Original publication : Contr. Gray Herb. 75: 32 1925
- Habitat : scarce shrub of the lower cloud forest limit from Tungurahua, Ecuador, to Amazonas, Peru
- Elevation : 1600-1900
- Native country : Ecuador, Peru
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite or subopposite near the branch tips, firmly membranous to subcoriaceous, petioles short, stout, 3 to 8 mm
- Foliage color upper side : subnitid and glabrous
- Foliage color lower side : pale to usually flushed red-violet and glabrous to finely puberulent along the nerves
- Leaf dimensions : 10-24cm long x 4-8cm wide
- Leaf shape : oblanceolate
- Leaf margin : entire
- Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
- Leaf base : obtuse to attenuate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 8 to 20 (to 26) on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets subterete, 3 to 5 mm thick, glabrous or minutely and sparsely puberulent on youngest growth, green to redpurple