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
