F. cyrtandroides

Tube color : green with dark purple streaks in bud and at anthesis, changing abruptly to dark crimson-purple before dehiscing
Sepal color : green with dark purple streaks in bud and at anthesis, changing abruptly to dark crimson-purple before dehiscing
Corolla color : red

Description

Pedicel : stout, 5-20mm long, pendulous in flower, divergent-erect in fruit, with the upper 5mm enlarged and dark purple
Ovary : cylindrical-fusiform, 6-8.5mm long x 3-4.5mm wide, green, ovules 500-600, four- or five-seriate in each locule,
Tube color : green with dark purple streaks in bud and at anthesis, changing abruptly to dark crimson-purple before dehiscing
Tube shape : cylindrical to slightly fusiform, slightly tetragonous
Tube dimensions : 6-14mm long x 5-9mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : green with dark purple streaks in bud and at anthesis, changing abruptly to dark crimson-purple before dehiscing
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate, spreading to recurved
Sepal tips :
Sepal dimensions : 7-19mm long x 3.5-7mm wide at the base
Corolla opening color : red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : petals oblanceolate to elliptic, erect, lavender to light purple, turning darker with age
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 4-11mm long x 1-4mm wide
Nectary : poorly defined, 3-5mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : 0.8-1mm thick, 6-18mm x 5-12mm long, purple
Anthers : suborbicular, attached apically with a thick connective, 1.3-1.8mm long x 1.5-2.5mm wide, purplish, with reniform thecae,

Pistil :
Style : stout, 1-1.5 mm thick, 14-30 mm long, faint cream-colored-purple
Stigma : clavate-capitate, 1.5-3mm long x 1.5-3mm wide, faintly four-cleft at apex, light green

Flower : single
Flowers : hermaphroditic, flowers axillary on young, leafy shoots or grouped on short, leafless side shoots off the main branches
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : oblong-fusiform or ellipsoid, 9-16mm long x 5-10mm wide, purple-black and juicy when ripe
Seed : oblong-triangular, 0.9-1.2mm long x 0.4-0.7mm thick, light brown

Habit : small tree, with numerous ascending branches, trunk with tan-copper, slightly fissured bark, 5 to 30 cm in diameter
Hardiness:
Height : 2-7 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : flowers mostly in the dry season, from July to October, but occasionally and less intensively in other months throughout the year
Named :
Lookalikes :

Year (of first description) : 1940
Botanist : Moore J.W.
Authors : Moore 1940
Original publication : Occas. Pap. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus. 16: 13 1940
Habitat : endemic to several of the highest peaks on the western (drier) side of the island of Tahiti
Elevation : 1150-2000
Native country : Tahiti
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11

Leaves : mostly opposite, occasionally ternate, less commonly alternate or subopposite, subcoriaceous to firm fleshy, petioles stout, 1.5 to 3 mm thick when fresh, 5 to 25 (to 35) mm long, stipules triangular, dark purple, 0.5 to 0.8 mm long, 0.4 to 0.75 mm wide and crassate at the base, caducous
Foliage color upper side : green
Foliage color lower side : whitish and sometimes purple-flushed
Leaf dimensions : (2-) 4-12cm long x (1.5-) 2-6cm wide

Leaf shape : (broadly) elliptic or obovate
Leaf margin : subentire with small, reddish, glandular teeth, midvein raised below
Leaf tip : rounded or obtuse
Leaf base : rounded to acute
Pubescence :