Tube dimensions : 13-18 (to 20)mm long x 2-3mm wide at the base, inarrowed slightly-1-2mm above the nectary, gradually widened above until 4-5mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : light yellow green to light pink
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate
Sepal tips : acute to acuminate, forming a short point 1 to 2 mm long in bud, spreading at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 8-11mm long x 3-4mm wide
Corolla opening color : bright scarlet
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : elliptic-oblanceolate, acute to rounded at the apex, spreading at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 6-9mm long x 3-4mm wide
Nectary : unlobed, about 1mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : red-greenish red, 5-8mm x 3.5-5mm long
Anthers : oblong, 1.5-2mm long x about 1mm wide, pale yellow
Pistil :
Style : glabrous-loosely pilose
Stigma : capitate, four-parted at the apex, 1.5-2mm long x 1.5-2mm wide, cream, situated at the level of the anthers or slightly exserted
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower :
Flowers : numerous in terminal, drooping, verticillately-branched panicles, rachis 5 to 30 cm long, bracts lanceolate, 10 to 35 mm long, 4 to 10 mm wide, often reflexed
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : cylindric-oblong, green to nitid purple, 15-19mm long x 8-11mm wide
Seed : reddish purple to tan, 1.5-2mm long x 1mm wide
Habit : erect to scandent shrubs with few, erect to mostly arcuate branches
Hardiness:
Height : 0.5-3 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks :
Named :
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1845
Botanist : Bentham
Authors : Bentham 1845
Original publication : Pl. Hartw. 176 1845
Habitat : in the Cordillera Occidental of the Northern Andes from Pichincha, Ecuador to Choco and Antioquia, Colombia, in the Cordillera Central from northern Napo to Tolima, and in the Cordillera Oriental from Putumayo to Huila, cloud forest shrubs in thickets, stream banks, and forest openings
Elevation : 2300-3200
Native country : Colombia, Ecuador
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : verticillate, mostly quaternate, subsessile, membranous to subcoriaceous, petioles 1 to 5 mm long, dull red, stipules triangular, thickened at the base, 1 to 2 mm long, about 1 mm wide, mostly deciduous
Foliage color upper side : lustrous dark green and subglabrous
Foliage color lower side : pale green to purplish and pubescent to subglabrous
Leaf dimensions : 6-20cm long x 2-6(-8)cm wide
Leaf shape : narrowly elliptic to elliptic or oblanceolate
Leaf margin : serrulate and commonly undulate
Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
Leaf base : rounded to attenuate or narrowly subcordate
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 18 to 25 on either side of the midvein, impressed above, the midvein prominent below
Stems :
Branches : young growth finely puberulent, branchlets subtetragonous, cinereous-puberulent, 2 to 6 mm thick, wine red, older branches 5 to 15 mm thick, with exfoliating bark
