Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, sparsely puberulent, pendulous, 12-26mm long
- Ovary : oblong, 4-5mm long x 2-2.5mm wide
- Tube color : red
- Tube shape : cylindrical, subglabrous outside, glabrous inside
- Tube dimensions : 5-7mm long x 2.5-4mm wide
- Sepal color upper : red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : narrowly lanceolate
- Sepal tips : acuminate, spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 17-22mm long x connate at the base for 4-5mm, free lobes 3-4mm wide
- Corolla opening color : purple
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : obovate, rounded at the apex
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 9-12mm long x 6-9mm wide
- Nectary : smooth, 3-4mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : red-purple, 22-32 x 16–8mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 2.5-3.5mm long x 1.1-1.6mm wide,
- Pistil :
- Style : red, glabrous-puberulent,
- Stigma : clavate, 2-3mm long and 1-1.4mm wide, exserted 5-20mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : solitary in upper leaf axils
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : subcylindrical, 10-16mm long x 5-8mm wide, shiny dark purple
- Seed : oblong, 2-4mm long x 1-1.5mm wide
- Habit : shrubs often scandent in trees or low brush and with decumbent branches to six meters long
- Hardiness:
- Height : 0,5-4 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : flowering is throughout the year, but mainly from November to March, natural hybridization with F. regia ssp. regia is known to occur
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1892
- Botanist : Taubert
- Authors : Taubert 1892. Berry 1989
- Original publication : Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 15(34): 16 1892
- Habitat : occurring in open campo and in cloud forest on a few high mountains around the towns of Nova Friburgo and Santa Maria Madalena, in Rio de Janeiro state
- Elevation : 1500-2100
- Native country : Brazil
- Synonyms : Fuchsia santos-limae, Brade 1957
- Gametic chromosome number n = 22
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite or ternate, firmly membranous to subcoriaceous, petioles 3 to 6 mm long, purplish and sparsely puberulent, internodes short, 3 to 12 mm long, stipules broadly triangular, 0.6 to 1.2 mm long and wide, thick at the base, purplish, deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : dark sublustrous green and glabrous
- Foliage color lower side : paler and subglabrous , or sometimes pilose at the base of the midvein
- Leaf dimensions : 15-30(-40)mm long x 8-15mm wide
- Leaf shape : elliptic or lanceolate
- Leaf margin : remotely gland-denticulate
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : 4 to 5 (to 6) secondary veins per side
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets subdivaricate and generally densely packed, minutely puberulent, dull purplish, readily exfoliating