Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, puberulent, verrucose or with spinescent protuberances, 2-6 cm long
- Ovary : narrowly oblong, 5-6mm long x about 1.5mm wide
- Tube color : dull pink
- Tube shape : cylindric-funnelform, subglabrous to puberulent outside, pilose inside in lower part
- Tube dimensions : (40 to) 45-54mm long x slightly bulbous and 3-4mm wide at the base, narrowed briefly-2-3mm wide above the nectary, then widened above until 5-8mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : dull pink
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : narrowly lanceolate
- Sepal tips : acuminate, with a tip about 2 mm long in bud
- Sepal dimensions : 13-17mm long x 4-8mm wide
- Corolla opening color : pink
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, acute to acuminate
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 15-20mm long x 4-8mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed, about 2mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : 12-13mm x 10-11mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 2.5-3mm long x 1-1.5mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : densely pilose for most its length
- Stigma : subobconic, about 2mm long x 1.5-2mm wide
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : few and axillary at the branch tips or subracemose
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- Flower bud :
- Fruit : ellipsoid, 12-15mm long x 8mm wide
- Seed :
- Habit : low shrubs
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- Year (of first description) : 1941
- Botanist : Macbride J.F.
- Authors : Macbride 1941
- Original publication : Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 13(4): 556 1941
- Habitat : known from the mountains near La Ventana and Almirante, east of Chachapoyas and in the Serrania de Bagua, Amazonas Department
- Elevation : 2600-3300
- Native country : Peru
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite or ternate, membranous to subcoriaceous, petioles 3 to 9 mm long, stipules narrowly lanceolate or filiform, 2 to 5 mm long, subpersistent
- Foliage color upper side : glabrous to strigillose
- Foliage color lower side : glabrous to strigillose
- Leaf dimensions : 2.5-9(-20)cm long x 1.2-4cm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly oblong to elliptic or oblanceolate
- Leaf margin : conspicuously dentate or serrulate
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 9 to 13 (to 25) on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : puberulent or canescent branchlets with spinescent projections, usually appearing papillose or verrucose when dry