Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, glabrous, 10-14 (to 19)mm long
- 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 :
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- 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 :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
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