Pedicel : slender, usually green, 30-55 (to 75)mm long
Ovary : cylindrical, 6-7mm long x 2-4mm wide, lustrous green or rose-colored
Tube color : red-pink
Tube shape : funnelform, mostly glabrous outside, pilose inside in lower part
Tube dimensions : (30 to) 36-51mm long x 2.5-4mm wide at base, narrowed slightly in lower part, then widened until 7-12mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : pale green
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : ovate-lanceolate, connate for 58 mm at base, lobes often split open before anthesis with stigma exserted
Sepal tips : acute, spreading at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 17-25mm long x 5-11mm wide
Corolla opening color :
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape :
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions :
Nectary : green, lustrous, 4-5mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : usually green, antesepalous ones 9-15 (to 20)mm long, the antepetalous ones 7-11 (to 16)mm long,
Anthers : oblong, yellow, 3.5-4.5mm long x 2-3 wide,
Pistil :
Style : retrorse villous in lower 113, exserted 10-15 mm beyond the anthers,
Stigma : clavate, 2.5-3.5mm long x about 2mm wide, green
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower :
Flowers : two to twelve per shoot, axillary or grouped toward the branch tips
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : cylindrical, 16-18mm long x 11-12mm wide, shiny light red when ripe
Seed : 60-70 per berry, triangular-ovate in outline, 2mm long x 1.3-1.7 mm wide, light brown
Habit : terrestrial shrubs, sometimes climbing to six meters above ground, growing in rocks, or epiphytic in trees to ten meters above ground, thickened roots to 20 mm thick or small tubers to 2 cm in diameter sometimes present
Hardiness:
Height : 1-2 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : flowering is mostly in the dry season, from January to April
Named :
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1876
Botanist : Hemsley
Authors : Hemsley 1876
Original publication : J. Bot. 14: 70 1876
Habitat : in subpáramo and cloud forest in Mérida and Trujillo States
Elevation : 2600-3400
Native country : Venezuela
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite or temate, sometimes subopposite, membranous, petiole 10 to 35 mm long, stipules lance-triangular, 2 to 2.5 mm long, 1 to 2 mm wide
Foliage color upper side : subglossy green and mostly glabrous
Foliage color lower side : pale green and subglabrous
Leaf dimensions : 50-100mm long x 18-50mm wide
Leaf shape : ovate-elliptic
Leaf margin : subentire to denticulate
Leaf tip : (sub to) acuminate
Leaf base : rounded to acute
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 6 to 8 on either side of the midvein
Stems :
Branches : branchlets red-pink to dark purple, 2 to 5 mm thick, older stems 5 to 25 mm thick, with freely peeling, flaky, pale tan bark.
