Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : puberulent, 13-50mm long
- Ovary : oblong, 7-8mm long x about 2mm wide
- Tube color : bright red
- Tube shape : subcylindric, puberulent outside, pilose inside
- Tube dimensions : 55-76mm long x bulbous and 3-4mm wide at the base, then narrowed to,2-3mm wide above the nectary, slightly widened above until 6-8mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : bright red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lanceolate
- Sepal tips : acuminate, tips slightly spreading in bud
- Sepal dimensions : 20-25mm long x 4-5mm wide
- Corolla opening color : red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : narrowly lance-elliptic, acute
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 10-16mm long x 3-6mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed, about 2mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : 14-15mm x 9-11mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 3.5-4mm long x 1.5-2mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : pilose
- Stigma : 3-4mm long and 2.5-3mm wide, four-parted at the apex
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : numerous and pendant in terminal racemes, rachis puberulent, 7 to 16 cm long, bracts 8 to 50 mm long, 5 to 25 mm wide, with petioles 1 to 8 mm long
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- Fruit :
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- Habit : scandent shrubs or lianas to 10 meters above ground
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1.5-3 m
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- Remarks :
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1982
- Botanist : Berry P.E.
- Authors : Berry 1982
- Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 69: 79 1982
- Habitat : known only from the type locality and its near vicinity on the eastern slopes of San Martín Department, Peru
- Elevation : 2800-3600
- Native country : Peru
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : mostly ternate, occasionally opposite, firmly membranous, petioles puberulent, 3 to 2 0 mm long, stipules narrowly triangular, about 2 mm long, deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : subglabrous to puberulent
- Foliage color lower side : puberulent, especially along the veins
- Leaf dimensions : 5-15cm long x 1.5-6cm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly elliptic-ovate
- Leaf margin : subentire to denticulate
- Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
- Leaf base : obtuse to rounded or unequal
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 9 to 11 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : young growth finely puberulent-velutinous, branchlets mostly subtriangular in transection