Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, pendulous, (4 to) 8-20mm long
- Ovary : oblong, 4-5mm long x about 2mm wide, strigose-strigillose
- Tube color : red to dark pink
- Tube shape : subrhombic, glabrous to strigose outside, glabrous inside
- Tube dimensions : 4-6mm long x 3.5mm wide in the middle and about 2.5mm wide at the base and summit
- Sepal color upper : red to dark pink
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lance-elliptic
- Sepal tips : spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 12-20mm long x connate for 3-5mm at the base, free lobes 4-7mm wide at base
- Corolla opening color : violet
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : broadly obovate, rounded to slightly retuse at the apex
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 9-12mm long x 7-8mm wide
- Nectary : 2.5-3mm high, shallowly eight-lobed
- Stamens :
- Filaments : red, 15-28 x 13-25mm long
- Anthers : purple-red, elliptic-oblong, 1.5-2mm long x 1-1.5mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : glabrous, exserted 5-10 mm beyond the anthers
- Stigma : clavate, 1,2-2mm long x 0,7-0,9 m wide
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : solitary in upper leaf axils
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : cylindrical-oblong, 14-16mm long x 7-8 mm wide
- Seed : 1.3-1.6mm long x 0.7-1.1mm wide
- Habit : subshrubs to woody scandent bushes, often growing among rocks
- Hardiness:
- Height : 0,3-3 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : flowers occur mainly during the summer, from November to March, natural hybridization with F. regia ssp. regia is known to occur
- Named : after P. Campos-Porto
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1935
- Botanist : Pilger & Schulze
- Authors : Pilger & Schulze 1935. Berry 1989
- Original publication : Rodriguésia 1(2): 95 1935
- Habitat : endemic to the open campos of the Itatiaia mountain massif, in the Serra da Mantiqueira, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais border
- Elevation : 2100-2550
- Native country : Brazil
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n = 22
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : mostly ternate, occasionally opposite or four or five-whorled, firmly membranous, internodes short, mostly 10 to 16 mm long, petioles (2 to) 3 to 8 mm long, stipules 0.5 to 1 mm long, narrowly lanceolate or filiform, deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : dark green and subglabrous
- Foliage color lower side : paler and mostly glabrous or with villous hairs along veins and margins
- Leaf dimensions : 12-40mm long x 2-6(-8)mm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly elliptic-lanceolate
- Leaf margin : gland-serrulate, with teeth angled towards the apex
- Leaf tip : narrowly acute
- Leaf base : acute to cuneate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins three to seven per side, at times inconspicuous
- Stems :
- Branches : young growth subglabrous to finely canescent or pilose. Older stems 1 to 4 cm thick, with flaky, coppery brown bark