Pedicel : slender, drooping, sparsely pilose, 24-35mm long
Ovary : oblong, 6-7mm long x about 3mm wide
Tube color : magenta or bright reddish pink
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, subglabrous outside, pilose inside in lower part
Tube dimensions : 31-34mm long x about 3.5mm wide at the base, then gradually widened above until about 7mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : magenta or bright reddish pink
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Sepal shape : narrowly lanceolate, connate for 2 to 3 mm at the base
Sepal tips : narrowly acute to acuminate, tips strongly spreading or recurved at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 22-23mm long x 4-5mm wide
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Nectary : about 3mm high
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Filaments : reddish, the antesepalous ones 13-20mm long, the antepetalous ones 9-14mm long
Anthers : narrowly oblong, 3-4mm long x about 2mm wide
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Style : reddish, pilose for most of length
Stigma : subclavate, barely four-cleft at the apex, about 2mm long x about 1.5mm wide
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Habit : low, scandent shrubs with oppositely branched stems
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Year (of first description) : 1985
Botanist : Berry P.E.
Authors : Berry 1985
Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 72: 235 1985
Habitat : known only from the type locality in cloud forest at the Carpish Divide in Huánuco Department
Elevation : 2750-2950
Native country : Peru
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FOLIAGE
Leaves : present at anthesis, opposite, firmly membranous, petioles strigose, purplish, 6 to 10 mm long, stipules lance-triangular, 1 to 1.5 mm long, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : apparently dark green and subglabrous
Foliage color lower side : paler green with pilose midvein and margin
Leaf dimensions : 40-80mm long x 18-30mm wide
Leaf shape : narrowly ellipticovate
Leaf margin : subentire
Leaf tip : subacuminate
Leaf base : acute to rounded
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Veins : secondary veins 6 to 10 on either side of the midvein,
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Branches : branchlets subterete, 1 to 3 mm thick, purplish, pilose with white hairs, older branches pilose, with lustrous purple bark splitting longitudinally
