ANDINUM Ball, 1885
Synonym : Villadia andina (Ball) Baehni & Macbride (1937)
Distribution : Peru (Lima : valley of the Rió Rimac), ± 4000 m
Description (by 't Hart & Bleij in IHSP 2003) :
Tufted perennial herbs with many slender leafy branches.
Leaves alternate, small, semiglobose.
Inflorescence : flowering branches suberect, inflorescences few-flowered.
Flowers 5-merous, sessile or subsessile, sepals basally free, slightly spurred, ovate-elliptic, almost as long as the petals, petals basally connate, lanceolate or oblong, subobtuse, dark red.
Cytology : chromosome count of approx. n=40
Note :
Recent discoveries show there may be one or more giant forms in north of Peru, unpublished as of year 2006, these can go to 3 ft. tall as a bush. They will probably be published as full new species. (James Low)
Small form :