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
