Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : 6-25 (to 50)mm long, drooping
- Ovary : ellipsoid, 6-8mm long x 2-3mm wide
- Tube color : orange red
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, subtetragonous in transection, strigose outside, pilose inside in lower part
- Tube dimensions : (35 to) 40-55mm long x 3-3.5mm wide and bulbous at the base, narrowed-2-2.5mm wide above the nectary and gradually widened above until 5-8mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : orange red
- Sepal color lower : pink
- Sepal shape : lanceolate
- Sepal tips : acuminate, spreading to divergent at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 10-20mm long x 4-6mm wide
- Corolla opening color : orange red
- Corolla mature color : pink
- Corolla shape : broadly elliptic-ovate, rounded to subacute at the apex, mostly about half as long as the sepals
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 7-11 long x 5.5-8mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed or shallowly quadrilobed, 1.5-2mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : light red, 8-11mm x 5-8mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 2.5-3mm long x ca. 2mm wide, white
- Pistil :
- Style : light red, pilose in lower ~
- Stigma : subobconic, four-cleft apically, circa 3mm long x 3-4mm wide, light red
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : axillary at branch tips
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : ellipsoid, 16-20mm long x 8-10mm wide, strigose, reddish when ripe
- Seed : 1.3-1.6mm long x 0.8-1.1mm wide
- Habit : suberect to scandent shrub, with flexuous branches to several meters long when scandent
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-4 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks :
- Named : from Ayavaca (northwest Peru)
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1823
- Botanist : Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth
- Authors : Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth 1823
- Original publication : Nov. Gen. Sp. 6: 107 1823
- Habitat : Cajamarca and Piura Departments of northern Peru and southernmost Loja Province
- Elevation : 1900-3200
- Native country : Peru, Ecuador
- Synonyms : F. asplundii, J. F. Macbride 1941, F. townsendii, I. M. Johnston 1925
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : mostly ternate, occasionally quaternate, membranous, petioles 6 to 20 (to 30) mm long, stipules lanceolate to triangular, 1.5 to 2 mm long, mostly deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : matte green and strigillose
- Foliage color lower side : paler and strigose, sometimes red-tinged
- Leaf dimensions : 6-15(-18)cm long x 2.2-5(-7)cm wide
- Leaf shape : oblong to elliptic or narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate
- Leaf margin : subentire to denticulate
- Leaf tip : acute to subacuminate
- Leaf base : acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 7 to 12 on either side of the midvein, at times reddish
- Stems :
- Branches : young growth is densely canescent-strigose or hirtellous with whitish hairs, older portions are strigose to hirtellous, older branches have brown exfoliating bark