Appearance
The plant is usually between 5 metres to 12 metres tall, but can be as tall as 20 metres, creating a vase shape with a spread rounded crown and thick, ligneous, branching stems. The trunk measures up to 80 centimetres in diameter at its base, with reddish. flaking bark.The evergreen leaves are dark green in colour, with lighter undersides and prominent longitudinal veins. They are coarsely hairy, simple, opposite, with a serrated edge, rounded base and a blunt tip. They measure 8 centimetres long and 4 centimetres wide. As the leaves age, they turn crimson and are covered by small scales that are brown in colour.
Distribution
"Andesanthus lepidotus" is native to the Andes mountains in Venezuela, Ecuador, and central Peru, in the montane humid and cloud forests, between 800 metres and 3,200 metres above sea level. In Colombia it is distributed in the Andean region, being found wild in the temperate and cool thermal floors. It is also found in Panama.References:
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