Ovary : oblong, 5-10mm long x 2-4mm wide, loosely pilose, green
Tube color : red to red-pink
Tube shape : subcylindric to fusiform, glabrous to pilose outside, pilose inside
Tube dimensions : 7-10mm long x 2-3mm wide at the base, 3.5-4.5mm wide in the middle, often constricted-about 3mm wide at the point of insertion of the stamens beneath the widening of the sepal tube
Sepal color upper : red to red-pink
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape :
Sepal tips : acute to acuminate, spreading to slightly recurved at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 17-25mm long x connate for (8 to) 11-16mm at the base and forming a tube, this enlarging-8-10mm wide before the separation of the sepals, the free lobes narrowly triangular, 5-11 (to 13)mm long x 3-5mm wide at the base
Corolla opening color : light to dark purple
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : petals almost entirely enclosed by the sepal tube, spathulate, rounded at the apex, the base slender and adnate to the sepal tube in the basal 3 to 4 mm above the insertion of the filaments,
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 12-18mm long x (5 to) 6-7mm wide
Nectary : green, slightly ridged, 1-1.2mm thick and 2.5-3mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : reddish pink, 22-38mm x 19-35mm long
Anthers : red-purple, oblong, 2.5-3mm long x 1-1.5mm wide,
Pistil :
Style : reddish, pilose in lower half
Stigma : clavate, purple, 1.2-1.6mm long x about 1mm wide, exserted 5-10mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : solitary in upper leaf axils
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : oblong-ellipsoid, 15-22 (to 26)mm long x 7-10 (to 16)mm wide at maturity, black when ripe
Seed : oblong-triangular, 2-2.6mm long x 1-1.6mm wide, and about 0.5 mm thick
Habit : scandent shrubs, or occasionally lianas in trees to eight meters high, with basal stems 1 to 6 cm in diameter, branches scandent or drooping to three meters long
Hardiness:
Height : 2-6 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : flowers occur throughout the year, but mainly during the summer season from November to March, natural hybridization with F. regia subsp. serrae is known to occur
Named : short-lobed (petals)’
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1989
Botanist : Berry P.E.
Authors : Berry 1989
Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 76: 552 1989
Habitat : montane forests of the Serra de Paranapiacaba in southern São Paulo state, in the Serra da Virgem Maria and Rio Capivari drainage in Paraná state, and then on the lower most slopes of the Serra do Mar and in coastal restingas
Elevation : 0-900
Native country : Brazil
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 22
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite, ternate or occasionally in whorls of four, firmly membranous, petioles usually dull purple, (2 to) 4 to 8 (to 14) mm long, subglabrous to densely pilose, stipules 0.5 to 1.1 mm long, 0.7 to 1.2 mm wide, purplish, broadly triangular, thick-stubby and divergent, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : subglabrous to sparsely pubescent with impressed veins
Foliage color lower side : sparsely puberulent to villous, especially along nerves
Leaf dimensions : 20-75mm long x 10-25(-30)mm wide
Leaf shape : lanceolate to narrowly ovate
Leaf margin : entire to remotely denticulate
Leaf tip : acute to occasionally acuminate
Leaf base : rounded
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 3 to 6 per side
Stems :
Branches : young growth densely pilose to puberulent, older stems exfoliating
