Ovary : ovoidellipsoid, 6-7mm long x 2-2.5mm wide, subglabrous-strigose
Tube color : paler subnitid red pink to scarlet, often greenish towards tips
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, subglabrous to strigose outside, villous inside in lower part
Tube dimensions : (28 to) 35-55 (to 60)mm long x 2.5-3mm wide and bulbous at base, then narrowed-1.5-2mm and gradually widened above until 5-8mm wide at rim
Sepal color upper : subnitid red pink to scarlet
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate
Sepal tips : subacuminate at apex, sometimes split open in middle in bud, spreading to divergent at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 10-17 (to 22)mm long x 5-6 (to 8)mm wide
Corolla opening color : scarlet
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : almost always longer than sepals, (broadly) elliptic to rhombic, obtuse to cuneate at apex, attenuate to unguiculate at base, glabrous to rarely pilose on dorsal nerve, (strongly) spreading at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 10-18 (to 24)mm long x (5 to) 6-10mm wide
Nectary : unlobed or shallowly 4-lobed, 1.5-2mm high, sometimes with a few erect hairs
Stamens :
Filaments : red pink, 10-18mm x 7-15mm long
Anthers : oblong-subreniform, 2-3mm long x 1.5-2.2mm wide, cream
Pistil :
Style : red, glabrous or occasionally pilose
Stigma : globose, slightly 4-cleft at apex, 2-3mm long x 2-4mm wide, cream-light red
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : axillary and pendant, usually fewer than six per branch
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : subglobose, 9-13mm long x 8-10mm wide, purple at maturity
Seed : tan, 2-2.6 (to 3)mm long x (1.0 to) 1.2-1.6 (to 2)mm wide
Habit : erect to scandent shrubs with ascending to divergent branches
Hardiness:
Height : 0.5-5 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : considerable variation in some populations of this species that might be the result of hybridization with F. caucana
Named :
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1845
Botanist : Bentham
Authors : Bentham 1845
Original publication : Pl. Hartw. 179 1845
Habitat : found in high elevation cloud forest and subpáramo areas from the Cordillera Central of Colombia in Cauca south to Imbabura, Ecuador
Elevation : 2800-3800
Native country : Ecuador
Synonyms : F. colombiana, Munz 1946
Gametic chromosome number n = 11 or 22
FOLIAGE
Leaves : ternate or less often quaternate, firmly membranous to subcoriaceous, petioles strigose, 3 to 12 (to 22) mm long, stipules lance-linear, dark, 2 to 4 mm long, 0.7 to 1 mm wide, persistent and usually divergent
Foliage color upper side : dark glossy green and glabrous to strigose
Foliage color lower side : pale green and usually strigose or villous
Leaf dimensions : 20-70mm long x 7-30mm wide
Leaf shape : elliptic to oblanceolate
Leaf margin : gland-serrulate, the teeth usually conspicuous and mostly 0.3 to 0.5 mm long
Leaf tip : acute to obtuse
Leaf base : acute to narrowly cuneate
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 3 to 8 on either side of the midvein, often red below
Stems :
Branches : branchlets terete, 2 to 3 mm thick, strigose, generally red purple, older stems 5 to 12 mm thick with red tan, exfoliating bark
