Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : pendant-ascending in fruit, 6-15mm long
- Ovary : ellipsoid, 5-6mm long x about 2mm wide, puberulent
- Tube color : pale pink to bright scarlet
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, minutely pubescent under a lens to velutinous or strigillose outside, pubescent inside for most of length
- Tube dimensions : 40-65 (to 70)mm long x 2-2.5mm wide and bulbous at the base, narrowed-1.5-2mm wide for about the basal 10mm of the tube, then gradually widened above until 5-8mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : pale pink to bright scarlet
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lance-oblong, buds terete and slightly mucronate
- Sepal tips : acute, spreading-divergent at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 12-15mm long x 3.5-5mm wide
- Corolla opening color : darker than sepals, red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : oblong, acute to obtuse-tipped, spreading and equal to or longer than the sepals at anthesis
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 12-17mm long x 4-5mm wide
- Nectary : shallowly 4-lobed, about 1.5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : pink-red, 8-10mm x 5-7mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 2.5-3mm long x about 1.5mm wide, white
- Pistil :
- Style : pink, puberulent from the base to the rim of the tube
- Stigma : capitate, 4-cleft at the apex, 2-2.5mm long x about 2.5mm wide, cream, exserted 3-6mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : few to many in terminal, corymbose, arching to drooping racemes or few-branched panicles, rachis 2 to 8 cm long, bracts lanceolate, 5 to 15 mm long
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : subglobose, more-or-less tetragonous before maturity, 10-12mm long x 8-10mm wide, red
- Seed : reddish tan, 1.8-2.1mm long x 1-1.4mm wide
- Habit : scandent to erect shrubs, young growth finely canescent to puberulent, older stems and leaves velutinous to subglabrous
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-4 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : F. corymbiflora var. Alba is a hybrid, the species itself is often confused with F. boliviana
- Named : Corymbiflora means ‘with flowers arranged in flat-topped heads (corymbs)’
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1802
- Botanist : Ruiz & Pavon
- Authors : Ruiz & Pavon 1802
- Original publication : Fl. Peruv. 3: 87 1802
- Habitat : endemic to cloud forest on the eastern slopes of the central Peruvian Andes in Huánuco, Junín, and Huancavelica Departments
- Elevation : 1500-2850
- Native country : central Peru
- Synonyms : F. munzii, J. F. Macbride 1941, F. velutina, I. M. Johnston 1925
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite, very rarely ternate, firmly membranous, petioles 6 to 20 (to 30) mm long, stipules triangular, 1 to 2 mm long, about 1.5 mm wide, sometimes connate, deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : matte green
- Foliage color lower side : pale green
- Leaf dimensions : 6-12(-19)cm long x 3-6(-9)cm wide
- Leaf shape : elliptic to oblong
- Leaf margin : subentire to obscurely glandular-denticulate
- Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
- Leaf base : acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 13 to 17 on either side of the midvein, sometimes reddish below
- Stems :
- Branches : branches few and spreading, branchlets terete, 2 to 3 mm thick, red to dull purple