Tube shape : cylindric to narrowly funnelform, the base much wider than the ovary, gradually widened from the base to the rim or more often with subparallel sides, glabrous to villous outside, villous inside in lower part
Tube dimensions : (35 to) 44-53mm long x very firm, 2-3mm thick when fresh, (3 to) 4-9mm wide at the base, 7-12mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : pale red to orange
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lance-oblong
Sepal tips : spreading at anthesis, the tip blunt or less often acute in bud
Sepal dimensions : 13-17 (to 21)mm long x 5-8mm wide, 2-2.5mm thick when fresh
Corolla opening color : red, darker than the sepals
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : broadly elliptic-ovate, obtuse at the apex, suberect at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 10-15mm long x 7-11mm wide
Nectary : shallowly four-eight-lobed, 1-2mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : red, 11-14mm x 7-10mm long
Anthers : oblong, 3-5mm long x about 2mm wide, cream
Pistil :
Style : densely villous from the base-near the rim of the tube
Stigma : capitate, four-cleft apically, 3-5mm long x 3-5mm wide, red
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower :
Flowers : few, pendant, and solitary in the upper leafaxils
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Habit : erect to scandent shrubs
Hardiness:
Height : 1-3 m
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Remarks :
Named : after Swedish botanist Gunnar Harling
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1972
Botanist : Munz
Authors : Munz 1972
Original publication : Aliso 7: 409 1972
Habitat : rare in cloud forest of Loja and Azuay Provinces
Elevation : 2600-3300
Native country : Ecuador
Synonyms : F. fosbergii Munz 1972
Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite or ternate, firmly membranous to subcoriaceous, petioles 3 to 6 (to 10) mm long, stipules lance-deltoid, thick at the base, sometimes connate or recurved, 1 to 2 mm long, about 1.5 mm wide, subpersistent
Foliage color upper side : glabrous and subnitid dark green
Foliage color lower side : pale green and glabrous to strigose-villous
Leaf dimensions : 3-7mm long x 1.5-2.5cm wide
Leaf shape : narrowly elliptic to elliptic-ovate
Leaf margin : glandular-serrulate
Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
Leaf base : acute to rounded
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 4 to 6 (to 7) on either side of the midvein, sometimes reddish below
Stems :
Branches : branchlets subterete, 2 to 4 mm thick, glabrous or rarely strigose-villous, older branches with lustrous, purple brown bark, exfoliating in wide strips with age
