Ovary : cylindrical-ellipsoid, 7-7.5mm long x 2-3 (to 4)mm wide, lustrous cherry red, glabrous-pilose
Tube color : bright red-pink, with a dark purple ring usually present around the mouth of the tube
Tube shape : funnelform, glabrous to sparsely pilose outside, pilose inside in lower part
Tube dimensions : 21-29 (to 31)mm long x about 3mm wide and more or less bulbous at the base, constricted above the base-about 2mm wide, then widened above until 7-8mm wide at the mouth
Sepal color upper : bright red-pink
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceovate, connate for 2 to 3 mm at the base
Sepal tips : acute to obtuse, divergent at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 12-14 (to 16)mm long x 5-7 (to 8)mm wide
Corolla opening color : red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape :
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions :
Nectary : 2-3mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : red, the antesepalous ones 8-10mm long, the antepetalous ones 6-8mm long,
Anthers : ellipsoid, cream, 2-2.5mm long x 1-2mm wide,
Pistil :
Style : red-pink, densely retrorse villous in lower half
Stigma : green, globose, about 1.5mm long and wide, exserted 5-10mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower :
Flowers : few and axillary near the tips of young shoots,
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : young berry is ellipsoid, 11mm long x 6mm wide
Seed :
Habit : erect to creeping subshrubs in rocks, or epiphytic in trees, with stoloniferous stems 2 to 8 dm long and numerous ellipsoid, copper-colored tubers lateral to the stem
Hardiness:
Height : 0.3-1 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : flowering is principally in the dry season, from (April to) July to November
Named :
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1985
Botanist : Berry P.E.
Authors : Berry 1985
Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 72: 243 1985
Habitat : endemic to upper cloud forest in Cochabamba Department
Elevation : 2000-3700
Native country : Bolivia
Synonyms :
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FOLIAGE
Leaves : alternate, usually absent when flowering, membranous, petioles 7 to 11 mm long, stipules filiform, 1.5 to 2mm long, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : glabrous
Foliage color lower side : usually pilose along the nerves, sometimes purple-tinged
Leaf dimensions : 20-35mm long x 10-20mm wide
Leaf shape : (narrowly) lance-ovate
Leaf margin : remotely denticulate
Leaf tip : acuminate
Leaf base : rounded
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 4 to 5 on either side of the midvein
Stems :
Branches : branchlets glabrous to loosely pilose, terete, 1.5 to 3 mm thick, reddish to copper, older stems 2.5 to 4 mm thick, with freely exfoliating bark
