Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : pilose, 10-23mm long
- Ovary : narrowly cylindrical, pilose, 8-10mm long x 2-3mm wide
- Tube color : bright scarlet or orange-red
- Tube shape : funnelform, pilose outside and inside in lower part
- Tube dimensions : (38 to) 40-54 (to 62)mm long x 4-6mm wide and bulbous at the base, constricted-2-2.5mm in lower part, then gradually widened until 7-11mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : bright scarlet or orange-red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : oblong-lanceolate, usually widest in the middle, connate for 3 to 4 mm at the base
- Sepal tips : acute to obtuse, strongly recurved at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 24-37mm long x 7-12mm wide
- Corolla opening color : red
- Corolla mature color :
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- Corolla dimensions :
- Nectary : 4-6mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : green, rose, the antesepalous ones 30-40mm wide, the antepetalous ones 25-35mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 4-5mm long x 2-2.5mm wide,
- Pistil :
- Style : densely retrorse villous in the lower 113, exserted 10-15 mm beyond the anthers,
- Stigma : globose, about 2mm long and wide.
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : few to numerous and clustered at the tips of new shoots
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- Fruit : immature berry is narrowly cylindrical, verrucose, 18-20mm long x 5-7mm wide
- Seed :
- Habit : scandent or epiphytic vines or shrubs climbing high into trees, or terrestrial shrubs about one meter high
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- Remarks : flowering is in the dry season when the plants is leafless, mostly from July to October
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1876
- Botanist : Hemsley
- Authors : Hemsley 1876
- Original publication : J. Bot. 14: 69 1876
- Habitat : scarce epiphyte in cloud forest or shrub on hillsides in Bolívar, Chimborazo, and Cafiar Provinces
- Elevation : 2000-3240
- Native country : Ecuador
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : alternate, absent when flowering, membranous, petiole 1 to 1.5 mm thick, 9 to 18 mm long
- Foliage color upper side : green and subglabrous
- Foliage color lower side : pale green to purplish and villous, especially along the veins
- Leaf dimensions : just two young leaves seen, these 4590mm long x 30-40mm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate to broadly elliptic-ovate
- Leaf margin : subentire to remotely denticulate
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 6 to 7 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets smooth, purplish, pilose, 2 to 5 mm thick, with prominent, alternate leaf scars, older stems freely exfoliating in strips, with stoloniferous runners