Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : strigose, 3-7 (to 12)mm long
- Ovary : cylindrical, 4-5mm long x 1.5-2mm wide
- Tube color : scarlet to orange red
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, strigillose outside, retrorse villous in lower part
- Tube dimensions : 15-21mm long x about 2mm wide and slightly bulbous at the base, gradually widened above until 3.5-5mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : scarlet to orange red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : oblong-lanceolate
- Sepal tips :
- Sepal dimensions : 6-8mm long x 3-4mm wide
- Corolla opening color : red to orange red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : oblong to broadly elliptic
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 5-8mm long x 3-4mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed or shallowly lobed, 1-1.5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : red, 6-7mm x 4-5mm long
- Anthers : broadly oblong, about 1.5mm long and about 1mm wide, white
- Pistil :
- Style : red, mostly glabrous
- Stigma : capitate, 1.5-2mm long x about 2.5mm wide, 4-cleft at the apex
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : few to many in abrupt, terminal and axillary, bracteate racemes, rachis 5 to 16 cm long, elongating in fruit, bracts lanceolate, persistent, 10 to 25 mm long, 3 to 10 mm wide, with petioles 3 to 5 mm long
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : cylindrical, verrucose, 9-12mm long x 5mm wide, red purple
- Seed : 1-1.1mm ling x 0.7mm wide
- Habit : shrubs
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-2m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : flowers are 3cm long
- Named : after the eastern part of Ecuador
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1982
- Botanist : Berry P.E.
- Authors : Berry 1982
- Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 69: 79 1982
- Habitat : scattered in low elevation cloud forest on the eastern slopes of the Andes from Napo to Zamora-Chinchipe
- Elevation : 1200-1600
- Native country : Ecuador
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite, rarely ternate, membranous, petioles strigillose, 8 to 20 mm long, stipules lanceolate, 1.5 to 3 mm long, 0.5 to 0.8 mm wide, mostly persistent and becoming thick and recurved on lower nodes
- Foliage color upper side : dark green, subnitid and subglabrous to strigillose
- Foliage color lower side : paler and mostly strigillose or puberulent along the veins and margin
- Leaf dimensions : 6-21cm long x 2.5-6cm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly elliptic to obovate
- Leaf margin : entire
- Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
- Leaf base : acute to attenuate or unequal
- Pubescence : yes
- Veins : secondary veins 12 to 17 on either side, mostly prominent below
- Stems :
- Branches : young growth puberulent to strigillose