Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : dull red or green, 26-60 (to 70)mm long
- Ovary : (narrowly) cylindric, 10-24mm long x 2-4mm wide, lustrous light green
- Tube color : glaucous, bright scarlet to light orange-pink
- Tube shape : glabrous outside, pilose inside in the lower quarter
- Tube dimensions : (38 to) 41-51mm long x 4-5mm wide and bulbous at the base, thereupon strongly constricted-1.5-2mm wide in the lower third-quarter of the tube, then abruptly widened until 10-13.5mm wide in the upper half before narrowing slightly-9-11 (to 12)mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : parrot green
- Sepal color lower : green
- Sepal shape : lance-ovate, thin membranous, connate for 5 to 7 mm at the base, tetragonous in bud
- Sepal tips : apex acute to acuminate, spreading-divergent at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 16-24mm long x 5-10 (to 12)mm wide
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- Nectary : 6-8mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : green, the antesepalous ones 10-16mm long, the antepetalous ones 8-13mm long
- Anthers : oblong, yellow, 4-5mm long x 2-3mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : pale green, pilose inside in the lower third
- Stigma : clavate, green, 4-4.5mm long x about 2mm wide, exserted 5-15mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : few to numerous, axillary or clustered at the tips of young shoots
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- Habit : shrubs , usually growing in rocks or epiphytic on trees, with globose to ellipsoid tubers 1 to 4 cm thick
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-2 m
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- Remarks : flowers appear in the dry season, principally from May to October
- Named : with green lobes (sepals)’
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- Year (of first description) : 1939
- Botanist : Johnston I.M.
- Authors : Johnston 1939
- Original publication : J. Arnold Arbor. 20: 243 1939
- Habitat : endemic to cloud forest in several valleys in Provo Paucartambo and Provo Quispicanchis Departments, Cuzco
- Elevation : 1600-2800
- Native country : Peru
- Synonyms : F. tuberosa
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : alternate, usually lacking at anthesis, membranous, petioles 14 to 45 mm long, stipules filiform, about 2 mm long, 0.2 to 0.3 mm wide, deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : glabrous
- Foliage color lower side : glabrous
- Leaf dimensions : 60-120mm long x 20-55(-60)mm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly lance-ovate
- Leaf margin : subentire to remotely denticulate
- Leaf tip : acuminate
- Leaf base : cordate to subcordate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 5 to 9 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets terete, smooth, purplish, 1.5 to 5 mm thick, older stems 0.5 to 2 meters long, 5 to 18 mm thick, with freely exfoliating bark