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 :
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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
