Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Tube color : red
- Tube shape :
- Tube dimensions :
- Sepal color upper : red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape :
- Sepal tips :
- Sepal dimensions :
- Corolla opening color : red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions :
- Nectary :
- Stamens :
- Filaments :
- Anthers :
- Pistil :
- Style :
- Stigma :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : perfect flowers, pedicels 8 to 16 mm long, hypanthium cylindric, 6 to 8.5 mm long, 1.9 to 2.3 mm wide at rim, 1.7 to 2.1 mm wide at base, subglabrous to puberulent, sepals 1.9 to 2.8 mm long, 1.6 to 2.3 mm)(vide at base, spreading to suberect, the apex acute to acuminate, hypanthium and sepals red, petals red, 1.5 to 2.6 mm long, 1.2 to 2.1 mm wide, the apex rounded, puberulent on the outer surface, nectary entire, 1 to 1.5 mm high, episepalous stamens exserted 0.7 to 1 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, filaments equal, 0.8 to 1 mm long, anthers 1 to 1.3 mm long, 0.5 to 0.6 mm thick, style 8.4 to 12.8 mm long, the stigma exserted 2.8 to 5 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes spreading, 0.4 to 0.7 mm long. pistillate flowers pedicels 4 to 8 mm long, hypanthium 2.6 to 4 mm long, 1.4 to 1.8 mm wide at rim, 1.3 to 1.6 mm wide at base, sepals 1.2 to 1.9 mm long, 0.9 to 1.2 mm wide at base, petals 0.8 to 1 mm long, 0.6 to 0.8 mm wide, nectary 0.7 to 0.9 mm high, style 4.8 to 6.4 mm long, the stigma exserted 1.8 to 2.4 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes 0.8 to 1.2 mm long
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit :
- Seed : 12-18 per berry, 1.7-2.4mm long x 0.9-1.1mm wide
- Habit : shrub
- Hardiness:
- Height : 0.5-2.5 m
- Light/Climate :
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- Remarks :
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1969
- Botanist : Breedlove
- Authors : Breedlove 1969
- Original publication :
- Habitat : in open forests with pintas, oak and sweet gum from the central highlands of Chiapas State in Mexico south to the Sierra las Minas in Guatemala
- Elevation : 1500-2200
- Native country : Mexico, Guatemala
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : subcoriaceous to coriaceous, re-volute, glabrous to pubescent on. the margins and veins, petiole 3 to 8 mm long
- Foliage color upper side :
- Foliage color lower side :
- Leaf dimensions : 6-30mm long x 3-14mm wide
- Leaf shape : elliptic to broadly lanceolate
- Leaf margin : entire
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : acute to attenuate
- Pubescence :
- Veins :
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets 5 to 20 cm long, glabrous to canescent, with white hairs, older branches 5 to 30 mm thick