Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : 9-11 (to 25)mm long
- Ovary : oblong, 7-10mm long x 3-4mm wide
- Tube color : coral red
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, pilose to short villous outside, pilose inside in lower tube
- Tube dimensions : 31-50mm long x 2-3mm wide and slightly bulbous at the base, gradually widened above until 5-8mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : coral red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : oblong
- Sepal tips : obtuse, spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 9-16mm long x 3-5mm wide
- Corolla opening color : red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : oblong to broadly elliptic, obtuse at the apex
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 11-20mm long x 4-8mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed or shallowly 4-lobed, about 1.5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : red, 5-9mm x 3-6mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 2-2.5mm long x about 1.5mm wide, white
- Pistil :
- Style : red, glabrous
- Stigma : capitate, shortly 4-lobed at the apex, 2-3mm long x 2-4mm wide, pink, exserted 1-3mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : few to many in terminal, corymbose, drooping racemes, rachis 4 to 18 cm long, bracts lance-linear, denticulate, 15 to 50 mm long, 3 to 8 mm wide
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : cylindric to ellipsoid, 17-20mm long x 9-11mm wide
- Seed : 1.6-2mm long x 0.9-1.2mm wide
- Habit : erect shrub
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-1.5 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks :
- Named : after American botanic John J. Wurdack who discovered the species in 1962
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1964
- Botanist : Munz
- Authors : Munz 1964
- Original publication : Brittonia 16: 229 1964
- Habitat : endemic to moist sites on slopes leading into the Rio Utcubamba valley in Amazonas Department
- Elevation : 2100-2400
- Native country : northern Peru
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite or ternate, softly membranous, shortly soft pilose on both sides, petioles pilose, 7 to 43 mm long, stipules conspicuous, lanceolate, usually with an obtuse apex, pale membranous, 3 to 5 mm long, 0.5 to 2 mm wide, sometimes connate, usually persistent and reflexed
- Foliage color upper side :
- Foliage color lower side :
- Leaf dimensions : 7-18cm long x 2-8cm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly elliptic-ovate
- Leaf margin : subdenticulate
- Leaf tip : acute to subacuminate
- Leaf base : acute to subacuminate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 7 to 14 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : young growth finely pilose, older stems pilose and dull tan, 3 to 10 mm thick