Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : 15-20mm long
- Ovary : narrowly cylindrical, 8-9mm long
- Tube color :
- Tube shape : pink and pubescent outside, inside with a nectariferous band lining the basal 3 mm of the tube
- Tube dimensions : 40mm long x 2-2.5mm wide at the base, gradually tapered-about 5mm wide at the base of the sepals
- Sepal color upper :
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : about 4 mm wide at their widest, basally connate in the lower half to third, green in the distal half and broader than the floral tube
- Sepal tips : broadly acute
- Sepal dimensions : 10-13mm long x 4mm wide
- Corolla opening color : no etals
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
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- Nectary :
- Stamens : eight stamens
- Filaments : the antesepalous about 10mm long, the alternating series about 6mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 3mm long x 1.5mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : pubescent in lower third
- Stigma : clavate, 2mm long x 1.5mm wide
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : axillary, preanthesal,
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- Fruit :
- Seed :
- Habit : shrub, stems erect and mostly bare of leaves, to 5 mm in diameter, lower internodes 5 to 6 cm long, leaf scars opposite or ternate, new flush of leaves and flowers subterminal on short side branches 1.5 to 4 cm long
- Hardiness:
- Height : 50 cm
- Light/Climate :
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- Remarks : the full flowering period has not been described. The beginning of leaf and flower is in early October when the type was collected on October 4.
- Named : in honor of Irene Meza (fl. 1965). In 1965, Meza made a single collection (No. 360) of this apparently very rare fuchsia.
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1999
- Botanist : Berry P.E. & Hermsen
- Authors : Berry & Hermsen 1999
- Original publication : Novon 9: 480 1999
- Habitat : known only from the type specimen found growing along a stream in a “quebrada antes de Utao” (a gulch or ravine before Utao) in Huánuco Province
- Elevation : 2430
- Native country : Peru
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : mostly opposite, young expanding blades densely pubescent with ± erect whitish trichomes 0.5 to 0.7 mm long, petioles 7 to 14 mm long, stipules brown, triangular, 1 mm long, 1 mm wide.
- Foliage color upper side : sparsely pubescent
- Foliage color lower side : densely pubescent
- Leaf dimensions : 2-4cm long x 1.5-2cm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate
- Leaf margin : glandular-denticulate
- Leaf tip :
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- Pubescence :
- Veins : 7 to 9 secondary veins per side
- Stems :
- Branches :