Description
FLOWER PARTS
- 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