Pedicel : slender, mostly strigose, more or less divergent, (7 to) 10-18 (-25)mm long
Ovary : oblong, 5-6mm long x 2-2.5mm wide
Tube color : orange to coral red
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, glabrous outside, pilose inside in lower part
Tube dimensions : 23-38 (to 45)mm long x 1.5-2mm wide and subnodose at the base, narrowed-1-1.5mm in basal ~, gradually widened above until 4-7mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : orange to coral red
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate
Sepal tips : acute to subacuminate
Sepal dimensions : (6 to) 8-13mm long x 4-5mm wide
Corolla opening color : orange red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : oblong, obtuse to acute at the apex
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 7-12mm long x 2.5-4mm wide
Nectary : unlobed, circa 1mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : light red, 6-8mm x 4-6mm long
Anthers : oblong, 1.5-2mm long x 1-1.2mm wide
Pistil :
Style : light red, glabrous-pilose in lower ~
Stigma : capitate, four-cleft apically, 2-2.5mm long x circa 2.5mm wide
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : the numerous flowers are held in short, terminal and subterminal racemes, rachis 2-6 cm long, bracts lanceolate, 6 to 10 mm long, 2 to 4 mm wide
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : oblong-ellipsoid, 10-12mm long x 6-8mm wide, green to red
Seed : tan, 1-1.2mm long x 0.7-0.8mm wide
Habit : shrub
Hardiness: H1
Height : 1-4 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks :
Named : after Edouard André
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1925
Botanist : Johnston I.M.
Authors : Johnston 1925
Original publication : Contr. Gray Herb. 75: 31 1925
Habitat : cloud forest and semi-open moist scrub in Piura, Cajamarca and Amazonas Provinces, Peru and in Zamora-Chinchipe Province, Ecuador
Elevation : 1130-3000
Native country : southern Ecuador, northern Peru
Synonyms : F. osgoodii, J. F. Macbride 1941, F. ovalis var. aberans, J. F. Macbride 1941
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite, or less often ternate, petioles 6 to 20 (to 30) mm long, stipules triangular, dark, 1.5 to 2 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm wide, subpersistent
Foliage color upper side : dark green, glossy, glabrous
Foliage color lower side : subglabrous to strigose, on midvein and along margin
Leaf dimensions : (5-) 7-17cm long x 2-9(-11)cm wide
Leaf shape : narrowly elliptic to obovate
Leaf margin : entire or subdenticulate
Leaf tip :
Leaf base :
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins (8 to)12 to 15 on either side of the midvein
Stems :
Branches : terete branchlets, 3 to 8 mm thick, sparsely puberulent to strigillose, and older stems, 8 to 14 mm thick, with tan, finely striated bark
