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F. cestroides
- Tube color : rose pink to lavender
- Sepal color : greenish (in bud) to dull purple
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- Flower :
- Habitus : upright
Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : puberulent, 3-4mm long
- Ovary : cylindrical, 3-4mm long x 1-1.5mm wide, puberulent-pilose
- Tube color : rose pink to lavender
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, lightly puberulent to pilose outside, retrorse villous inside in lower part
- Tube dimensions : 18-20mm long x 2-3mm wide at the base, narrowed-about 1.5mm wide in the lower 113, then gradually widened-about 4mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : greenish (in bud) to dull purple
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : oblong lanceolate, connate for about 1.5 mm at the base
- Sepal tips : obtuse to acute, spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 5-7mm long x 2.5-3mm wide
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- Nectary : about 3mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : green, the antesepalous ones 3.5-6(-7)mm long, the antepetalous ones 2-5mm long
- Anthers : broadly elliptic, yellow, about 1.5mm long x about 1mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : glabrous, exserted 5-8 mm beyond the anthers
- Stigma : clavate, 1.5-2mm long x about 1mm wide, slightly four-cleft at the apex
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : generally numerous on terminal and axillary racemes with. small, deciduous, lance-filiform bracts, rachis (15 to) 25 to 35 mm long
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- Fruit : immature berry is oblong, 8mm long x 5mm wide
- Seed : about 50 seeds per berry
- Habit : erect to scandent shrubs
- Hardiness:
- Height : 0.5-3 m
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- Remarks :
- Named : looks like the genus Cestrum
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- Year (of first description) : 1940
- Botanist : Schulze-Menz
- Authors : Schulze-Menz 1940
- Original publication : Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 137 1940
- Habitat : rare and endemic to scrub vegetation on the Pacific-facing slopes of the Andes in Cajamarca, Lambayeque, and Piura Departments
- Elevation : 1100-1700
- Native country : Peru
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite or ternate, membranous, petioles strigose, (2 to) 48 mm long, stipules lanceolate, about 1 mm long, about 0.5 mm wide
- Foliage color upper side : subglabrous to puberulent
- Foliage color lower side : puberulent, especially on the veins
- Leaf dimensions : 26-100mm long x 14-15mm wide
- Leaf shape : elliptic
- Leaf margin : subentire to serrulate
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 6 to 14 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets terete, 1.5 to 3 mm thick, puberulent to pilose, older stems 5 to 40 mm thick, with exfoliating bark
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