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 silhouette :
Petal margins :
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
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
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
Hardiness:
Height :
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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
