Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, strigose, 10-20mm long
- Ovary : cylindrical, 12-15mm long x 3-4.5mm wide, strigose
- Tube color : pink to dull red
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, loosely villous outside and inside
- Tube dimensions : 50-65mm long x 2-4mm wide at the base, gradually widened above until 7-10mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : pale red and yellow green towards the apex
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lanceolate
- Sepal tips : subacuminate, spreading or suberect at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 12-17mm long x 4-6mm wide
- Corolla opening color : bright red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : elliptic to ovate, rounded at base, acute at apex, erect
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 6-9mm long x 4-6mm wide
- Nectary : a smooth yellow green band 0.3-0.4mm thick lining the basal 3-5mm of the tube
- Stamens :
- Filaments : light red, the antisepalous ones 9-10mm long, the antipetalous ones 5-7mm long
- Anthers : white, 2.5-3mm long x 1-2mm thick
- Pistil :
- Style : slender, pink, pubescent in lower ~, 60-82 mm long
- Stigma : green, subconic, 23mm long x about 1.5mm thick
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : several to many in terminal, drooping racemes, the rachis 3 to 20 cm long, bracts reflexed, ovate to elliptic, 0.5 to 2.5 cm long
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : elongate, 20-30mm long x 8-15mm wide, glabrous to sparsely strigillose, dark purple
- Seed : 1-1.5mm long x 1mm wide, ovate to subtriangular
- Habit : soft-wooded shrubs 0.5 to 3 m tall, with thickened, tuberous underground parts, often epiphytic in trees or on rocks.
- Hardiness:
- Height : 0.5-3 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : flowering is in the wet season, from June through September, the following are probable garden hybrids: F. fulgens fulgens, F. fulgens var. rubra grandiflora, F. fulgens var. gesneriana, F. fulgens var. goselli, F. fulgens var. michoacan, F. fulgens var. jalisco and F. intermedia
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1828
- Botanist : DeCandolle
- Authors : De Candolle 1828. Breedlove, Berry & Raven 1982
- Original publication : Prodr. 3: 39 1828
- Habitat : in oak trees or on rocks, especially around seepages and waterfalls, along the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt from Jalisco to the State of Mexico and in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Guerrero
- Elevation : 1450-2300
- Native country : Mexico
- Synonyms : Spachia fulgens, Lilja 1840, Ellobium fulgens, Lilja 1841, F. fulgens pumila, Carrière 1881, F. racemosa Sesse & Mociño 1888
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite, soft-membranous, young leaves canescent to tomentose, the older ones short villous, petiole stout, strigose, 3 to 8 cm long, stipules subtuberculate, lance-deltoid, 1.2 to 2 mm long, 0.2 to 0.5 mm wide, deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : pale green
- Foliage color lower side : lighter green, red-tinged
- Leaf dimensions : (5-)9-15cm long x (3-)5-12cm wide
- Leaf shape : ovate to cordate
- Leaf margin : denticulate to serrulate with red glandular teeth
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : rounded to cordate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 8 to 10 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets 4 to 25 cm long, 1 to 5 cm thick, semisucculent, quadrangular, subglabrous to strigose, reddish. Older branches and stems freely exfoliating, 1 to 6 cm thick