Crusea coccinea var. chiriquensis W.R.Anderson

apex, occasionally distinctly acuminate, the acumen to 1.2 cm long, basally cu-neate to acute, often slightly decurrent on the petioles, the costa slender, often indistinguishable from the lateral veins, plane or immersed above, prominent beneath, to 0.7 mm wide, the lateral veins usually 5, strongly arcuate ascending, arising at a sharp angle, immersed or plane above, prominent beneath, charta-ceous, not strongly discolorous, the upper surface striate, white hirtellous be-tween the veins, white hirtellous beneath; petioles 0.5-0.8 cm long, to 0.1 cm wide, these adnate to the lip of the stipular cup; stipules cylindriform, to 1.5 cm long, to 0.5 cm wide, membranous, glabrous or occasionally villosulose, the sheath extending beyond the next superior node, with a terminal fringe of 1-12 glandular tipped linear setae, often hirtellous, to 1.4 mm long, ca. 0.2(-0.5) mm wide. Inflorescences terminal, sessile, the flowers several, ascending, the hypan-thiums hidden by the terminal stipules and the leaf bases. Flowers with the hy-panthium turbinate, 3-5 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide at the truncate apex, the ca-lycine cup cupuliform or campanulate, 3-4 mm long, ca. 3 mm wide at the apex, glabrous, petaloid, the lobes 4, unequal, lanceolate, to 8 mm long, ca. 1.2 mm wide at the base, acute, glabrous except hirsute marginally, usually with 2-3 small glands at the junction of 2 adjacent lobes, oblong, to 1 mm long, obtuse; corolla red, rose or violet, to 35 mm long, the tube narrowly funnel shaped, sharply attenuate below middle, to 0.3 cm wide near the mouth, glabrous within and outside, the lobes 4, elliptic or ovate oblong, 8-11 mm long, to 5 mm wide, with a few white hairs abaxially and terminally; stamens 4, exserted, the anthers oblong, ca. 3 mm long, twisted after shedding pollen, versatile, the filaments slender, plane, equal to the corolla lobes, to 7 mm long, attached near the mouth; style filamentous, as long as the corolla tube, minutely puberulent on the upper ?3, the stigmas 2, slender, ca. 1.8 mm long. Fruits not seen.