Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : stout, 1-2mm thick, 15-35(-50)mm long, strigose
- Ovary : ovoid, usually constricted near the apex, 6-8mm long x 3-4mm wide, canescent hirtellous and slightly furrowed
- Tube color : bright scarlet to orange red
- Tube shape : funnelform, usually dilated above the middle, strigose outside, villous inside for lower third
- Tube dimensions : (32 to) 40-50 (to 65)mm long x 3-4.5mm wide and bulbous at the base, tapered-2-3 (to 4)mm wide in lower third, widened above until (6 to) 8-14mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : bright scarlet to orange red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lanceolate
- Sepal tips : narrowly acute at the apex, with a narrow, tapered tip in bud, fully reflexed soon after anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 16-23 (to 28)mm long x 6-8mm wide
- Corolla opening color : red to orange red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : rotund to orbicular or very broadly ovate, rounded to obtuse at the apex, erect to suberect at anthesis
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : (10 to)13-18mm long x (9 to)10-16mm wide
- Nectary : green, shallowly four-eight-lobed, circa 2mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : red or orange, 10-18mm x 8-13mm long
- Anthers : oblong, circa 4mm long x 2-3mm wide, cream
- Pistil :
- Style : red, densely villous from the base-the rim of the tube
- Stigma : globose-subclavate, slightly four-cleft apically, 2-4mm long x 2-4mm wide, red
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : flowers axillary and pendant, generally few
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : ellipsoidal, 14-16mm long x 8mm wide, usually more or less tetragonous before maturity, slightly verrucose, red when ripe
- Seed : tan, 1.8-2.1mm long x 0.8-1.2mm wide
- Habit : erect to scandent shrub with mostly ascending branches, young growth is conspicuously canescent to hirtellous with white hairs
- Hardiness: H1
- Height : 1-3 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : shrubby growth, sporadic in its flowering, natural hybridization with F. vulcanica is known to occur
- Named : enlarged, increased’
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1845
- Botanist : Bentham
- Authors : Bentham 1845
- Original publication : Pl. Hartw. 178 1845
- Habitat : along the Cordillera Occidental from Imbabura to Bolívar and one collection from the Nariño-Putumayo border in southern Colombia and growing in hedgerows on dry slopes, near streams or in upper elevation cloud forest
- Elevation : 2850-3500
- Native country : Ecuador
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : ternate or occasionally quaternate, often drooping, membranous, petioles strigose, 7-20 mm long, usually dull purple, stipules lancelinear, 3-5 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, subpersistent
- Foliage color upper side : matte green, strigose
- Foliage color lower side : pale green and strigose-villous below with red purple veins
- Leaf dimensions : 4-9(-12)cm long x 1.5-4mm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly elliptic to lanceolate
- Leaf margin : subentire to denticulate
- Leaf tip : acute to subacuminate
- Leaf base : acute to narrowly cuneate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 5-9(-11) on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets are 2 to 3 mm thick hirtellous to densely stirgose, green to dull purple, older branches are a dull ash-gray