Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, strigose, at times slightly verrucose, arching-pendant, 15-25mm long
- Ovary : oblong, 2-3mm long x 1-1.5mm wide
- Tube color : red to dark red
- Tube shape : subcylindric, subglabrous to strigillose and occasionally verrucose outside, densely villous inside in lower parts
- Tube dimensions : 10-20 (to 23)mm long x 3-4mm wide at the base, usually slightly narrowed-2.5-3mm wide above the nectary and slightly widened above-4-6mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : red with dull green tips in bud
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : narrowly lanceolate, not much wider than the tube in bud
- Sepal tips : narrowly acute at the apex, spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 8-10 (to 18)mm long x 2-3 (to 4)mm wide
- Corolla opening color : scarlet to orange red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : linear to broadly elliptic-ovate and often variable on the same plant, apex acute
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 5-9 (to 14)mm long x 1.5-4 (to 8)mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed-obscurely 4-lobed, 1-1.5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : red, 8-10mm x 5-8mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 2-2.3mm long x 1.2-1.5mm wide, dull white
- Pistil :
- Style : glabrous, red
- Stigma : clavate-capitate, about 2mm long and 1-2mm wide, obscurely 4-cleft, white, exserted 4-8mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : axillary and few to numerous towards the tips of branches
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- Fruit : subglobose, subtetragonous before maturity, 8-9mm long x 5-6mm thick, red
- Seed : tan, 1.5-1.6mm long x 0.8-1.0mm wide
- Habit : suberect to scandent shrubs with a well-developed system of lateral, divaricate, often horizontal branches. Secondary and tertiary branches numerous, 2 to 4 per node and held at near 90° to stem, densely ferrugineous-tomentose to canescent
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-3 m
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- Remarks :
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1802
- Botanist : Ruiz & Pavon
- Authors : Ruiz & Pavon 1802
- Original publication : Fl. Peruv. 3: 88 1802
- Habitat : a scattered to locally frequent shrub in thickets from tree line to mid-elevation cloud forest, from San Martín to Cuzco Departments
- Elevation : 2900-3400
- Native country : Peru
- Synonyms : F. fusca, Krause 1906, F. scandens, Krause 1905
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite or mostly ternate, firmly membranous, petiole 3 to 10 (to 14) mm long, canescent to tomentose, stipules filiform, 2 to 3 mm long, about 0.3 mm wide, mostly deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : dark green and subglabrous to strigillose with impressed veins
- Foliage color lower side : paler green below with strigose, usually reddish hairs along the veins
- Leaf dimensions : 15-35(-45)mm long x 7-15mm wide
- Leaf shape : lanceolate to elliptic-obovate
- Leaf margin : subentire to serrulate or denticulate
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : acute to attenuate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 4 to 6 on either side of the midvein, subelevated below, higher order veins not visible without magnification
- Stems :
- Branches : older stems 5 to 14 mm thick with sublustrous, copper red bark exfoliating in long, uneven strips