Collection Details
Species: Columnea medicinalis (Wiehler) L. E. Skog & L. P. Kvist
Collection Date: 25 January 2001
Determined By: J. L. Clark
Determination Date: 30 November 2000
Institution: US
Locality
Country: Ecuador
Region: Cotopaxi
Subregion: Sigchos
Locality Description: Parroquia: San Francisco de las Pampas. Bosque Integral Otonga
DD Latitude: -0.4195
DD Longitude: -79.0032
Min. Elevation: 1900 m
Habitat
Habitat Description: Premontane wet forest.
Botanical Data
Plant Notes: Epiphytic climber. Shoots "fern-frond'-like (dorsiventral). Abaxial leaf surface green with red apex and red margins. Bracts and leaves densely clustered. Bracts red. Corolla yellowish-orange with red markings; bilabiate. Nectary a single lobed gland Photographs of this collection are in the Gesneriaceae photo file (US).
Other Data
Project: Neotropical Gesneriaceae