Pedicel : slender, 8-15mm long, more-or-less divergent, strigose or glabrous
Ovary : oblong, 3-5mm long x 1.5-2.5mm wide, subglabrous, mostly wine red
Tube color : nitid orange to coral red
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, glabrous outside, pilose inside in basal part
Tube dimensions : 22-35mm long x 1.5-2.5mm wide and slightly bulbous at the base, narrowed-1.2-2mm wide for the basal V3, then dilated-6-9mm wide before narrowing slightly towards the rim
Sepal color upper : nitid orange to coral red
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : narrowly lanceolate, 4-angled in bud with a tip 2 to 3 mm long
Sepal tips : generally long acuminate, strongly divergent to slightly reflexed at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 10-13mm long x 2.5-4mm wide
Corolla opening color : orange red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : narrowly lance-oblong, acute at the tip, undulate and spreading-reflexed at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 8-11mm long x 2.5-4mm wide
Nectary : unlobed, about 1mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : orange red, 5-6mm x 3-4mm long
Anthers : oblong, 1.5-2mm long x 1.1-1.3mm wide, cream
Pistil :
Style : orange red, mostly glabrous or loosely villous in lower
Stigma : capitate, shortly 4-cleft at apex, 2-2.5mm long x about 2mm wide, dull cream-orange red
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : numerous in compact, terminal and subterminal racemes, rachis 0.5 to 3 cm long, usually more-or-less strigose, bracts narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, usually reflexed, 5 to 15 mm long, 1 to 4 mm wide
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : oblong-ellipsoid, 11-15mm long x 7-8mm wide, turning dark purple at maturity
Seed : brown, 0.9-1.1mm long x 0.7-0.8mm wide
Habit : scandent to erect shrubs
Hardiness:
Height : 1-3 m
Light/Climate :
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Remarks :
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Year (of first description) : 1943
Botanist : Munz
Authors : Munz 1943
Original publication : Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. IV, 25: 61 1943
Habitat : moist thickets, stream sides, and road banks on the eastern slopes of Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe and Morona-Santiago
Elevation : 1600-2250
Native country : Ecuador
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : 2 to 4 per node, mostly ternate or quaternate, membranous, petioles 4 to 12 (to 20) mm long, subglabrous to strigillose, mostly reddish, stipules lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 mm long, 0.4 to 0.8 mm wide, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : subnitid dark green and glabrous
Foliage color lower side : pale green and glabrous or pubescent along veins
Leaf dimensions : 4-11(-15)cm long x 1-3.5(-4.2)cm wide
Leaf shape : narrowly (ob to) lanceolate to narrowly elliptic
Leaf margin : entire
Leaf tip : acuminate
Leaf base : acute to acuminate
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 8 to 10 (to 11) on either side of the midvein, impressed above
Stems :
Branches : numerous short lateral branches 5 to 12 cm long near the tips of the main stems
