Aeschynanthus lasiocalyx
A lipstick-plant relative from the deep river gorges of south-eastern Tibet, with stems about 30 cm long, narrowly elliptic leaves 7–9 cm long, and red flowers about 6 cm long in July. It was described in 1984 from rocks near a riverside in forest at about 800 m and is known from very few collections. It is best treated as a subtropical Aeschynanthus that wants a warm, humid summer and a cooler, drier winter.
Where it grows wild
On rocks near riversides in subtropical forest in the lower Yarlung Tsangpo valley around Mêdog (Motuo). Wikipedia calls it an epiphyte, but the recorded habitat is rock, so it grows as a lithophyte or on mossy surfaces in humid, shaded gorge forest.
About 800 m. The deep gorge carries warm, monsoon-fed forest far into the Himalaya.
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