Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Tube color : violet
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- Sepal color upper : violet
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- Corolla opening color : violet
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MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : gynodioecious. erect and numerous in terminal di- to trichotomously branched panicles, 10 to 20 cm long by 10 to 15 cm wide, narrowly leaflike, quickly deciduous bracteoles 1 to 3 mm long present at branching points of the panicle. perfect flowers, pedicels slender, 15 to 20 mm long, finely pubescent, ovary oblong, puberulent, 2 to 3 mm long, buds noticeably wider at the tip than below, 4 to 5 mm wide at the apex before opening, floral tube cylindric-conical, reddish pink to magenta, sparsely puberulent to subglabrous externally, 4 to 5 mm long at anthesis, 2 to 2.5 mm wide at the rim, 1 to 1.5 mm wide at the base, sepals narrowly oblong, 8 to 10 mm long, 1.5 to 2.5 mm wide, soon becoming reflexed back against the floral tube. the apex acute, petals obovate, pink-lavender, 4 4 mm long, 2 to 4.5 mm wide, nectary 1.2 to 1.5 mm high, slightly lobed, adnate to the bottom of the floral tube, filaments lavender, 7 to 11 mm long, anthers oblong, about 2 by 1 mm, style 14 to 18 mm long, exserted 10 to 13 mm beyond the rim of the tube, stigma capitate, +four-angled, 1.5 to 2 mm wide, fruit subglobose, 5 to 7 mm in diameter, mature seeds not seen. female flowers, similar to the perfect ones except in the following characters, pedicels 9 to 14 mm long, floral tube cylindrical, 3.5 to 4.5 mm long, about. 2 mm wide at the rim, 1 to 1.5 mm wide at the base, sepals 6 to 7 mm long, about 1.5 mm wide at the base, petals 3.5 to 4.5 mm long, 2 to 2.5 mm wide, filaments 3 to 4 mm long, sterile anthers oblong, about 1 mm long, nectary about 1.5 mm high, style 13 about 14 mm long, stigma square-capitate, with four noticeable lobes, 2 to 2.5 mm wide, exserted 8 to 9 mm beyond the rim of the tube
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- Habit : erect shrub
- Hardiness:
- Height : 2,5-4 m
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- Year (of first description) : 1996
- Botanist : Berry P.E. & Breedlove
- Authors : Berry & Breedlove 1996
- Original publication :
- Habitat : from central Oaxaca State, Mexico in the Mixe and Ixtlan Districts in dense montane rainforest and mixed oak-conifer forest
- Elevation : 1700-2500
- Native country : Mexico
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite, membranous, petiole 10 to 25 mm long, puberulent, stipules narrowly triangular, dark brown, 0.3 to 0.7 rnm wide, 1.0 to 1.5 mm long, crassate, soon deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : glabrescent but short hairs often present along the veins
- Foliage color lower side : puberulent along the veins
- Leaf dimensions : 11-25cm long x 4-10cm wide
- Leaf shape : elliptic
- Leaf margin : gland-denticulate
- Leaf tip : acute to subacuminate
- Leaf base : acute to attenuate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 14 to 18 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets ascending 5 to 30 cm long, finely pubescent with hairs 0.2 to 0.4 mm long