Flowers : perfect flowers, pedicels drooping to spreading, pubescent, 18 to 25 mm long, hypanthium cylindric, 6.5 to 9.2 mm long, 3.4 to 3.9 mm wide at rim, 3.1 to 3.5 mm wide at base, short vinous pubescent outside and inside, sepals broadly lanceolate, 3.8 to 4.6 mm long, 1.7 to 2.1 mm wide at base, spreading to suberect, the apex acuminate, the tips connivent in bud, hypanthium and sepals red, petals red, orbicular to oblate, 3.8 to 4.2 mm long, 4.1 to 4.6 mm wide, pubescent, spreading to erect, the apex three-lobed, nectary a swollen disc with four membranous wings extending along the vascular bundles leading to the episepalous stamens, 1.8 to 2.1 mm high, episepalous stamens exserted 1.4 to 1.7 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, filaments unequal, the episepalous ones 0.6 to 0.9 mm long, the epipetalous ones 1.4 to 1.7 mm long, anthers 1.8 to 2.1 mm long, 0.5 to 0.8 mm thick, style 12.5 to 15.2 mm long, the stigma exserted 3.5 to 5.5 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes deltoid, suberect, 1 to 1.3 mm long. pistillate flowers, similar to the perfect flowers in all except the following characteristics: pedicels 9 to 14 mm long, hypanthium 4 to 4.6 mm long, 1.9 to 2.2 mm wide at rim, 1.7 to 2 mm wide at base, sepals 2.2 to 2.6 mm long, 0.9 to 1.3 mm wide at base, petals 1 to 1.4 mm long, 0.6 to 0.8 mm wide, nectary 1.1 to 1.3 mm high, style stout, 6.8 to 7.5 mm long, the stigma exserted 2.5 to 3.2 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes 1 to 1.3 mm long
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Seed : 14-18 per berry, 2.1-2.5mm long x 1.1-1.3mm wide, oblanceolate in outline, hilum subbasal
Habit : erect shrub
Hardiness:
Height : 2-4 m
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Remarks : gynodioecious
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Year (of first description) : 1969
Botanist : Breedlove
Authors : Breedlove 1969
Original publication : Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 53: 57 1969
Habitat : locally abundant in pine, oak and alder forests in the Sierra Madre near San Miguel Suchixtepec in Oaxaca State
Elevation : 2400-2650
Native country : Mexico
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : lower leaves opposite to three at a node, upper ones opposite, chartaceous, strigose pubescent on the upper surface, short pubescent on the lower surface, petiole pubescent, 7 to 22 mm long
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Leaf dimensions : 35-125mm long x 12-45mm wide
Leaf shape : lanceolate to broadly ovate
Leaf margin : serrulate
Leaf tip : acute
Leaf base : acute to cuneate
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Branches : branchlets ascending, vigorous, 30 to 90 cm long, 2 to 7 mm thick, quadrangular in transection, canescent to tomentose, older branches 8 to 45 mm thick
