Flowers : perfect flowers, pedicels 4 to 12 mm long, hypanthium 3.5 to 6.5 mm long, 2.5 to 3.8 mm wide at rim, 0.5 to 1 mm wide at base, sepals 2.5 to 4.5 mm long, 1.5 to 2.2 mm wide at base, petals 2 to 4 mm long, 1.5 to 3.2 mm wide, style 7.5 to 11.2 mm long, the stigma exserted 3 to 4.5 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes 0.9 to 1.1 mm long. pistillate flowers. pedicels 4 to 8 mm long, hypanthium 1.2 to 2.2 mm long, 1.1 to 1.7 mm wide at rim, 0.3 to 0.6 mm wide at base, sepals 1.6 to 2.7 mm long, 0.8 to 1.3 mm wide at base, petals 1.1 to 1.8 mm long, 0.5 to 1.2 mm wide, style 2.9 to 4.5 mm long, the stigma exserted 1.5 to 2.2 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes 1.2 to 1.4 mm long
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Height : 0.5-2.2 m
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Remarks : Humboldt 1823, flowers 3-4mm large, blooms start to flower white-rose and after they are fertilized by insects they turn red
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Authors : Breedlove 1969
Original publication : Nov. Gen. Sp. 6: 104 1823; Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 53: 50 1969
Habitat : common in the understory of pine, oak and fir forests from the Sierra Madre Occidental of Sinaloa and Durango southward to Jalisco and east across the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt to Vera Cruz, then north to the Sierra de Pachuca of Hidalgo and south to the Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca
