Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : drooping, pubescent, 12-18mm long, 1-2mm thick
- Ovary :
- Tube color :
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, pubescent outside, more sparsely pubescent inside,
- Tube dimensions : 47-58mm long x 3-5mm in diameter. at the slightly bulbous base, narrowing-2-4mm wide above, then widening again-about 8mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper :
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : narrowly lanceolate, the distalmost 2 to 3 mm free in bud, densely pubescent outside, glabrous inside
- Sepal tips : spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 16-17mm long x about 4mm wide at the base
- Corolla opening color :
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : petals 4, glabrous, narrowly elliptic
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 16-18mm long x 4-5mm wide
- Nectary :
- Stamens : stamens 8, the antesepalous ones 1213 mm long, the antepetalous ones 8 to 9 mm long
- Filaments :
- Anthers : about 4 long x 1.5mm wide, ovary cylindrical, about 7 long x 2mm in diameter
- Pistil :
- Style : sparsely pubescent and protruding from the floral tube
- Stigma : capitate, slightly 4lobed at the apex, 2-2.5mm long x about 1.5mm wide
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : to four per node, pendent in the uppermost leaf axils
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- Flower bud :
- Fruit : unripe berries oblong, densely pubescent, 8-12mm long x 3-6mm wide
- Seed :
- Habit : scandent shrub or liana to ten meters above ground, with long, flexuous-arcuate, mostly unbranched shoots to several meters long
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- Remarks :
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1999
- Botanist : Berry P.E. & Hermsen
- Authors : Berry & Hermsen 1999
- Original publication : Novon 9: 4 1999 479-482
- Habitat : only known in cloud forest in Cajamarca in northern Peru
- Elevation : 2000-2500
- Native country : Peru
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : in whorls of three or four, petioles stout, pubescent, 2 to 4 mm long, stipules narrowly lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 mm long
- Foliage color upper side : green and sparsely pubescent, older leaves with trichomes persistent along the midvein and secondary veins
- Foliage color lower side : paler and densely pubescent in young leaves, with erect trichomes about 0.25 mm long, older leaves with trichomes persistent along the midvein and secondary veins
- Leaf dimensions : 3-6 X 1-3cm
- Leaf shape : elliptic to obelliptic
- Leaf margin : subentire to glandular-denticulate
- Leaf tip : variable from rounded and mucronate to obtuse or acute
- Leaf base : acute to obtuse
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 13 to 15 on either side of the midvein, the midrib elevated on lower surface
- Stems :
- Branches : young growth densely puberulent, the branchlets with erect trichomes about 0.25 mm long, older branches with exfoliating brown to red-brown bark