Pedicel : pedicels, and flowering branches pendant, loosely strigose, 12-40mm long
Ovary : ovoid, 5-7mm long x 2-4mm wide, strigillose-pilose
Tube color : subnitid red
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, subglabrous to puberulent-strigose outside (rarely pilose), (densely) pilose or villous inside in lower 2 to 4 cm
Tube dimensions : 40-50 (to 55)mm long x (2.5)3-4mm wide and bulbous at the base, narrowed-2-3mm for the basal 18-22mm of the tube, then gradually or usually abruptly widened and 8-9mm wide near the rim
Sepal color upper : subnitid red
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate
Sepal tips : acute to acuminate at the apex, spreading at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : (13 to) 15-21mm long x (4 to) 5-6mm wide
Corolla opening color : scarlet
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : oblong to elliptic-obovate or lanceolate, obtuse to acute at the apex, margin and surface smooth, often with several hairs on dorsal surface, spreading to slightly recurved at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 14-21mm long x (4 to) 6-8mm wide
Nectary : unlobed or slightly 4-lobed, 1.5-2mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : light red, sometimes whitish at the base, 10-14mm x 8-12mm long
Anthers : oblong, 2.5-3mm long x about 1.5mm wide, white
Pistil :
Style : red, glabrous-loosely villous
Stigma : subglobose, 2-2.5mm long x about 2mm wide, slightly 4-cleft at the apex, dull cream-pink red
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : axillary and clustered at the branch tips or sometimes corymbose with a rachis 2 to 6 cm long
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : ovoid to subglobose, somewhat quadrangular before maturity, 13-16mm long x 10-13mm wide, dark red purple at maturity
Seed : 2-3mm long x 1.1-1.4mm wide
Habit : erect to usually scandent-climbing shrubs, with arching-pendant branches
Hardiness:
Height : 2-5 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : natural hybridization with F. venusta and F. nigricans is known to occur
Named :
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1943
Botanist : Munz
Authors : Munz 1943
Original publication : Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. IV, 25: 41 1943
Habitat : in cloud forest thickets and woods in the Venezuelan Andes and the Serrania de Perija along the Colombian-Venezuelan border, in Trujillo, Mérida, and Táchira in the Mérida Andes, and in the Sierra de Perija in Zulia, Venezuela and Cesar, Colombia
Elevation : 2200-3100
Native country : Colombia, Venezuela
Synonyms : F. jahnii Berry 1982
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : mostly ternate, occasionally opposite or quaternate, membranous, petioles light red, 10 to 40 (to 48) mm long, stipules lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 mm long, divergent-spreading with age, subpersistent
Foliage color upper side : deep matte velvety green and strigillose to subglabrous
Foliage color lower side : pale dull green to purplish and strigillose, hairs denser along the veins
Leaf dimensions : 3.5-12cm long x 1.5-5cm wide
Leaf shape : (narrowly) elliptic to slightly (ob to) ovate
Leaf margin : usually denticulate
Leaf tip : acute to subacuminate
Leaf base : acute to obtuse or attenuate
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 5 to 12 on either side of the midvein
Stems :
Branches : young growth sparsely puberulent to subcanescent, rarely densely pilose, branchlets subterete, subglabrous to strigose (rarely reddish pilose), older stems 8 to 18 mm thick, long and flexuous if climbing, with tan, flaky bark
