Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, loosely strigose-pilose outside, pilose inside in lower part
Tube dimensions : 33-37mm long x 2.5-3mm wide and bulbous at the base, narrowed-about 2mm wide above the nectary and gradually widened above until 5-6mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : rose red
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate
Sepal tips : acuminate
Sepal dimensions : 13-15mm long x 3-4mm wide
Corolla opening color : red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : lanceolate, acute to subacuminate at the apex
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Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 9-10mm long x about 3mm wide
Nectary : unlobed, about 1.5mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : red, 8-9mm x 6-7mm long
Anthers : oblong, 2.5-3mm long and about 2mm wide, cream yellow
Pistil :
Style : red, loosely villous for most of its length
Stigma : capitate, slightly 4-lobed at the apex, 2mm long x 2-3mm wide, exserted 1-3mm. beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : few and axillary near the branch tips
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Habit : densely pilose, many-branched shrub
Hardiness:
Height : 2m
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Remarks :
Named : after Dr. Julian Alfred Steyermark, a well known American plant collector
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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 on the eastern slopes of the Andes in southernmost Ecuador. Santiago-Zamora in deep forest along the Río Valladolid between the west side of the Río Valladolid at Tambo Vallodolid to the Río Molino above Tambo Vallodolid and between Rancho Achupallas and Tambo Valladolid
Elevation : 2000-2700
Native country : Ecuador
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite to quaternate but usually appearing fasciculate due to the very reduced lateral shoots, firmly membranous, petioles 0.2 to 2 mm long, stipules dark, lance-linear, about 1.5 mm long, subpersistent
Foliage color upper side : subglossy dark green and sparsely strigose
Foliage color lower side : pale and densely pilose along central nerve and margin
