Aphelandra lawranceae Leonard, Journ, Washington Acad. Sci. 25: 437. 1935. Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 1482539, collected in forest region at Agua Perro on Mount Chapón, Department of Boyacá, Colombia, 1,650 meters altitude, June 17, 1932, by A. E. Lawrance (No. 244). Named for Mrs. A. E. Lawrance.
Suffrutescent, up to 1.2 meters high; stems terete, glabrous, more or less verrucose, the internodes 1.5 to 4 cm. long; leaf blades narrowly oblong-elliptic, up to 17 cm. long and 3 cm. wide, acuminate at apex (the tip itself blunt), gradually narrowed from about the middle to base and decurrent on the petiole, entire or undulate, both surfaces glabrous, the lower surface often dark mauve; petioles up to 2 cm. long; spike terminal (sometimes subtended by a whorl of 4 or 5 pairs of leaves), sessile, up to 7 cm. long and 2 cm. broad, the rachis puber- ulous; bracts rather closely imbricate, erect-spreading, oblong-lan- ceolate, up to 2.5 cm. long and 9 mm. wide (narrowed to 5 mm. at base), abruptly acuminate to acute at apex, entire, puberulous, ciliate; bractlets narrowly lanceolate, up to 9 mm. long and 1.5 mm. wide, 1-nerved, striate, puberulous, some of the hairs glandular; calyx seg- ments subequal, about 9 mm. long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, the posterior one 3 mm. wide, minutely bidentate at apex, the anterior pair 1.7 mm. wide, the lateral pair 1.5 mm. wide, all striate and puberulous toward tip (glandular and eglandular hairs mixed); corolla up to 6.5 cm. long, brilliant red, finely pubescent, the tube gradually enlarged from 3 mm. at base to 5 mm. at throat, the upper lip entire, oblong, about 15 mm. long and 6 mm. wide, the lower lip 3-lobed, the lobes subequal or the lateral ones slightly shorter, up to 2 cm. long, the middle lobe obovate, up to 8 mm. wide, the lateral lobes oblong, up to 6 mm. wide; filaments about 3.5 cm long, glabrous or minutely pubescent toward base; staminode slender, about 13 mm. long, pubescent at tip; style puberulous; ovary glabrous below, pilosulous above. BOYACA: Mount Chapón, Lawrance 243 (K); 244 (K, US type); 252 (K, US). CUNDINAMARCA: Bogotá, Saunders s. n. (K).