Description
FLOWER PARTS
- 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 :
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- 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