Pedicel : stout, smooth, 1-1.5mm thick, 18-45mm long, suberect in bud, drooping at anthesis, generally green
Ovary : narrowly oblong, terete, 10-13mm long x 3-4.5mm wide, generally glabrous, green
Tube color : waxy light pink, lavender, or light red
Tube shape : subcylindric, firm, walls 1 to 1.5 mm thick, smooth, glabrous to puberulent outside, densely villous inside above the nectary for 7 to 10 mm, glabrous above
Tube dimensions : (28 to) 36-47mm long x (3 to) 4-8mm wide at the base, sometimes very slightly narrowed above the nectary, straight or slightly widened above until (5 to) 6-12mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : pink to light red with light green to whitish tips or margins, at times entirely whitish green
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate, forming a tapered point in bud
Sepal tips : acuminate, spreading to subdivergent at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 17-26mm long x 4-7mm wide
Corolla opening color : orange to scarlet, usually drying purple streaked
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : lance-oblong to oblanceolate, obtuse to broadly acute at the apex, slightly undulate, suberect at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 14-18mm long x 4-6 (to 7)mm wide
Nectary : green, unlobed, 2.5-3mm high, about 1.5mm thick
Stamens :
Filaments : pink-light red, 14-23mm x 8-18mm long
Anthers : oblong, 4-6mm long x 2-3mm wide, white
Pistil :
Style : stout, pink-light red, glabrous
Stigma : subclavate, subentire (very slightly 4-cleft at the apex), 3-4mm long x 2-3.5mm wide, dull white, exserted 2-12mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : few to numerous, axillary and pendant, usually grouped toward branch tips
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Flower bud :
Fruit : ellipsoid, 20-26mm long x 10-12mm wide, nitid green to red purple, smooth surfaced
Seed : tan, 1.8-2.2mm long x 1mm wide
Habit : erect to scandent shrubs or climbing in trees to ten meters above ground, young growth subcanescent or occasionally pilosulous
Hardiness:
Height : 1.5-4 m
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Year (of first description) : 1802
Botanist : Ruiz & Pavon
Authors : Ruiz & Pavon 1802
Original publication : Fl. Peruv. 3: 88 1802
Habitat : from three main areas: 1. The Pacific slopes of the Cordillera Occidental of Peru in Lima and Ancash near springs and in moist canyons at elevations from 2,800 to 3,500 meters, 2. The eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes from Huánuco to Cuzco in cloud forest and moist upland shrub vegetation at elevations from 2,500 to 3,400 meters, and 3. The northeastern slopes of the Bolivian Andes in La Paz and Cochabamba Departments in cloud forest at elevations from 2,200 to 3,100 meters.
Elevation : 2200-3500
Native country : Peru, Bolivia
Synonyms : F. leptopoda, Krause 1905, F. serratifolia, Ruiz & Pavon 1802, F. siphonatha, Krause 1905, F. tacsoniiflora, Krause 1905
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : three to five-verticillate, mostly ternate or quatemate, rarelyopposite, firmly membranous, petioles glabrous to loosely strigose, (5 to) 8 to 20 (to 25) mm long, stipules triangular, firm, often connate, 2 to 2.5 mm long, about 1.5 mm wide, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : dull to nitid dark green and glabrous
Foliage color lower side : pale green and subglabrous to strigose mostly along veins and margins
Leaf dimensions : 4-17cm long x 1.5-6.5cm wide
Leaf shape : (narrowly) elliptic to oblanceolate
Leaf margin : denticulate
Leaf tip : acute to subacuminate
Leaf base : acute to narrowly cuneate
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 7 to 17 on either side of the midvein, often reddish below
Stems :
Branches : branchlets terete, subdivaricate, green to wine red, older branches 5 to 20 mm thick with tan, exfoliating bark
