Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Tube color : pink
- Tube shape :
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- Sepal color upper : pink
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape :
- Sepal tips :
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- Corolla opening color : pink
- Corolla mature color :
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- Nectary :
- Stamens :
- Filaments :
- Anthers :
- Pistil :
- Style :
- Stigma :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : perfect flowers, pedicels 6 to 15 mm long, hypanthium subcylindric to cylindric, 6.5 to 12.8 mm long, 2.5 to 4.2 mm wide at rim, 2.2 to 3.2 mm wide at base, glabrous to heavily pubescent, sepals 3.5 to 6.2 mm long, 1.8 to 3 mm wide at base, spreading to suberect, the apex acute to long acuminate, hypanthium and sepals red to purplish-red, petals red to pale purplish-red, 2.8 to 4.8 mm long, 2 to 4.5 mm wide, the apex rounded to emarginate, slightly pubescent on the outer surface, nectary entire, 0.8 to 1.2 mm high, episepalous stamens exserted 0.6 to 2.4 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, filaments equal 1.3 to 1.6 mm long, anthers 1.4 to 1.7 mm long, 0.6 to 0.8 mm thick, style 8.8-17.7 mm long, the stigma exserted 2.5 to 7.9 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes suberect, 0.4 to 0.7 mm long. pistillate flowers, pedicels 4 to 12 mm long, hypanthium 3.5 to 5.8 mm long, 1.4 to 1.8 mm wide at rim, 1.0 to 1.5 mm wide at base, sepals 2.8 to 3.9 mm long, 1.2 to 1.6 mm wide at base, petals 1 to 1.7 mm long, 0.5 to 1.2 mm wide, nectary 0.5 to 0.7 mm high, style 5.6 to 7.8 mm long, the stigma exserted 1.6 to 2.7 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes 0.7 to 0.9 mm long
- Flower size :
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- Flower bud :
- Fruit :
- Seed : 14-24 per berry, 1.9-2.4mm long x 0.9-1.2mm wide
- Habit : shrub
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-3 m
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- Remarks :
- Named :
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- Year (of first description) : 1969
- Botanist : Breedlove
- Authors : (Lundell) Breedlove 1969
- Original publication : Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 53: 45 1969
- Habitat : common in dense forests of fir and oak and evergreen cloud forests from the central highlands and the Sierra Madre del Sur of Chiapas State south through Guatemala, El Salvador, and scattered locations in Honduras
- Elevation : 1500-3500
- Native country : Mexico
- Synonyms : F. aprica, Lundell 1940, F. microphylla var. aprica, (Lundell) Munz 1943
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11 or 22
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : chartaceous to coriaceous, glabrous to pubescent on the margins and veins, petiole 1.3 to 15 mm long
- Foliage color upper side :
- Foliage color lower side :
- Leaf dimensions : 1.2-3.8mm long x 0.6-2.8mm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly lanceolate to broadly elliptic
- Leaf margin :
- Leaf tip : acute to naucronate
- Leaf base : acute to attenuate
- Pubescence :
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- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets 5 to 18 cm long, subglabrous to canescent with white hairs, older branches 5 to 23 mm thick