Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : hirsute, 9-15mm long
- Ovary : oblong, 4-5mm long x 1.5-2mm wide, pilose, eight-sulcate
- Tube color : red
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, glabrous to sparsely pilose outside, pilose inside for most its length
- Tube dimensions : 35-50mm long x 2-4mm wide and slightly bulbous at the base, narrowed-1.5-3mm wide above the nectary, gradually widened above until 7-10mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : narrowly lanceolate
- Sepal tips : acuminate, with tips connate into a tip about 2 mm long in bud
- Sepal dimensions : 13-18mm long x 4-5mm wide
- Corolla opening color : red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : narrowly triangular with long, tapered tips, petals shorter than the sepals
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 9-14mm long x 2.5-3mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed, about 1.5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : red, 6-10mm x 4-7mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 2-2.5mm long x about 1.5mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : red, densely pilose for most its length
- Stigma : subobconic, four-cleft at the apex, 2-3mm long x about 2mm wide, exserted 4-5mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : mostly two to eight, drooping, grouped in uppermost axils at the branch tips
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : ellipsoid-ovoid, 10mm long x 5-7mm wide
- Seed : tan, 1.8-2.1mm long x 1-1.2mm wide
- Habit : densely-branched shrubs
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-2.5 m
- Light/Climate :
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- Remarks :
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1844
- Botanist : Fielding & Gardner
- Authors : Fielding & Gardner 1844
- Original publication : Sert. Pl. t. 28 1844
- Habitat : endemic to cloud forest near high ridges of the mountains east of the Rio Utcubamba in Amazonas Department
- Elevation : 2600-3200
- Native country : Peru
- Synonyms : F. dolichantha, Krause 1905
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : densely crowded on branchlets and upper portions of older stems with internodes mostly 2 to 5 mm long, 2 to 4 leaves per node, usually ternate, subcoriaceous, petioles hirsute- villous, 1 to 2 mm long, stipules dark, filiform, 2 to 3.5 mm long, about 0.3 mm wide, persistent, often connate and divergent to reflexed
- Foliage color upper side : glabrous, except for scattered hairs 1.0 to 1.2 mm long on the basal portions of the midvein or along the margins
- Foliage color lower side : glabrous, except for scattered hairs 1.0 to 1.2 mm long on the basal portions of the midvein or along the margins
- Leaf dimensions : 8-12mm long x 3-5mm wide
- Leaf shape : elliptic-ovate
- Leaf margin : remotely glandular-denticulate or slightly revolute
- Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
- Leaf base : rounded to acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 4 to 5 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets terete, 1.5 to 3 mm thick, usually less than 15 cm long, conspicuously ferrugineous-hirsute, older branches with red brown bark exfoliating in slender strips