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 :
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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
