Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, divergent-pendant, 3-10mm long
- Ovary : narrowly cylindricfusiform, often narrowed towards the apex, 6-10mm long x 2-3mm wide
- Tube color : red to rose red
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, canescent strigillose outside, pilose inside in lower part
- Tube dimensions : 14-22mm long x 2-3mm wide and slightly bulbous at the base, gradually widened above until 3.5-7mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : red to rose red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lanceolate
- Sepal tips : acute, spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 10-13mm long x 3-5mm wide
- Corolla opening color : darker red, crimson
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : narrowly elliptic-oblong, acute
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 5-10mm long x 2-4mm wide
- Nectary : green, shallowly 4-lobed, about 1.5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : red, 5-7mm x 3-5mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 1.5-2mm long x about 1mm thick, dull white
- Pistil :
- Style : glabrous-sparsely pilose, light red
- Stigma : capitate, subtetragonous, 2-3mm long x 2-4mm wide, 4-lobed in upper stigma, pink, slightly exserted beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : generally numerous in long, straggly, terminal or subterminal racemes, rachis arching-pendant or sometimes more-or-less ‘twisted, 5 to 20 cm long, bracts ovate-cordate, subsessile, tightly grouped
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : subcylindric-fusiform, gradually narrowed towards the apex, more-or-less verrucose before maturity, 13-17 mm long x 57 mm wide, red purple to subtranslucent
- Seed : 1.5mm long x 0.8mm wide
- Habit : erect to scandent shrubs
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-2.5m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : flower up to 3,5cm long
- Named : sylvatica is latin and means ‘from the woods’
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1845
- Botanist : Bentham George
- Authors : Bentham 1845
- Original publication : Pl. Hartw. 176 1845
- Habitat : western slopes of the Andes from Cotopaxi to Imbabura Provinces, in mid-elevation cloud forest, growing in moist soil in thickets, along streams, or on roadside banks
- Elevation : 2600-3100
- Native country : Ecuador
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : mostly ternate, opposite, or rarely quaternate, membranous, finely reticulate-veined and sometimes rugulose, petioles strigillose, 6 to 34 mm long, stipules dark purple, narrowly triangular, 1 to 2 mm long, about 0.7 mm wide, thick at the base, subulate at the apex, subpersistent
- Foliage color upper side : medium-dark green and strigillose
- Foliage color lower side : pale green to tinged red and strigillose
- Leaf dimensions : 4-15cm long x 2-8cm wide
- Leaf shape : elliptic to (ob- to) ovate
- Leaf margin : remotely gland-denticulate
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : acute to attenuate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 11 to 18 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : young growth finely canescent, older stems with tan, fissured bark