Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : pilose, usually pink, 15-22mm long
- Ovary : cylindrical, 5-7mm long x about 2mm wide, dull purple, pubescent
- Tube color : pale pink
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, densely pilose outside, pilose inside in lower part
- Tube dimensions : 44-53mm long x 3-4.5mm wide and bulbous at the base, then narrowed-2-3mm wide in lower third and gradually widened above until 6-10mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : whitish to pale pink, sometimes greenish in bud
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : narrowly ovate, connate at base for 4 to 7 mm
- Sepal tips : acute, strongly spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 13-20mm long x 7-8mm wide
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- Nectary : green purple, lustrous, 3-4mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : dull green, the antesepalous ones 12-15mm long, the antepetalous ones 7-9mm long,
- Anthers : oblong, yellow, 3-4mm long x 2.5-3mm wide,
- Pistil :
- Style : pale pink, densely retrorse villous in lower half
- Stigma : globose, green, about 2mm long x 2-2.5mm wide, slightly 4-cleft at the apex
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : few to many, grouped towards the tip of branches or axillary branchlets, sometimes subtended by reduced leaves.
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- Fruit : 4-angled before maturity, oblong, verrucose, purplish, mature berry not seen
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- Habit : terrestrial shrubs or lianas or epiphytes with long, hanging branches to eight meters high in trees, tubers sometimes present or else thickened stems 10 to 20 mm in diameter
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- Remarks : full flowering period not described, known to be in flower in June and July
- Named :
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- Year (of first description) : 1985
- Botanist : Berry P.E.
- Authors : Berry 1985
- Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 72: 244 1985
- Habitat : known only from cloud forest above Pilalo, Provo Cotopaxi Province
- Elevation : 2400-3150
- Native country : Ecuador
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : usually alternate, occasionally opposite or subopposite, membranous, often unequal on either side of the margin, petioles pubescent, 15 to 38 mm long, stipules filiform, about 2 mm long, 0.2 to 0.4 mm wide, deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : subglabrous to scattered pilose
- Foliage color lower side : pilose along nerves and margins
- Leaf dimensions : 40-120mm long x 25-54mm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly ovate
- Leaf margin : subentire to denticulate
- Leaf tip : acuminate
- Leaf base : acute to rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 6 to 9 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets terete, dull purple-green, densely pilulose, 2 to 4 mm thick, older branches reddish purple, freely exfoliating