Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : subglabrous, 9-26mm long, reddish
- Ovary : ellipsoid, 6-8mm long x about 3mm wide, light green, finely strigillose and more-or-less verrucose
- Tube color : bright red
- Tube shape : subcylindric, finely strigillose outside, pilose inside in Iower part
- Tube dimensions : 32-45mm long x 2.5-3mm wide at the base, slightly constricted-about 2mm wide above the nectary and gradually widened above until 5-7mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : bright red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lanceolate
- Sepal tips : spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 10-13mm long x 3-5mm wide
- Corolla opening color : red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : elliptic-oblong
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 10-12mm long x 4-6mm wide
- Nectary : mostly unlobed, 1-1.5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : red, 7-10mm x 5-8mm long
- Anthers : oblong, about 2mm long x about 1mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : pubescent for most its length, red
- Stigma : capitate, about 2mm long x 2-4mm wide, slightly 4-cleft apically, dull white-pink, exserted 4-10mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : few to many in lateral racemes or on short side branchlets 1 to 6 (to 10) cm long
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : ellipsoid, dull dark purple, 15-18mm long x 7-10mm wide
- Seed : dark purple, 1.5-2mm long x 0.9-1.2mm wide
- Habit : erect to scandent shrubs
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1.5 – 3 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : found in 1790 in central Peru by Thaddeus Haenke, flowers are up to 6 cm long
- Named : because petals are larger than the sepals
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1831
- Botanist : Presl Carl
- Authors : Presl 1831
- Original publication : Reliq. Haenk. 2: 28 1831
- Habitat : known only from the Cordillera Azul, which is a semi-isolated Andean spur to the east of the main Andean cordilleras of Peru and which runs along the Huánuco-Loreto border before joining the main cordillera in southern Huánuco In clearings and roadsides
- Elevation : 1600-1800
- Native country : Peru
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite, firmly membranous, petiole subglabrous, 6 to 16 mm long, stipules lanceolate to triangular, sometimes connate, 1 to 2 mm long, about 0.7 mm wide, mostly deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : subglabrous to strigillose
- Foliage color lower side : subglabrous to strigillose, sometimes purple flushed
- Leaf dimensions : (7-) 9-18cm long x (3-) 4-8cm wide
- Leaf shape : elliptic
- Leaf margin : subentire
- Leaf tip : acute to shortly acuminate
- Leaf base : acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 13 to 18 on either side of the midvein, often reddish, prominent below and anastomosing into a submarginal vein
- Stems :
- Branches : young growth minutely puberulent, older branches glabrescent, with finely-splitting, tan brown bark