Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : erect-spreading, slender, 6-12mm long, elongating up to 18mm long in fruit
- Ovary : cylindrical-fusiform, 4-6mm long x about 3mm wide, lustrous red-pink
- Tube color : red to rose-red
- Tube shape : obconic to sub cylindric
- Tube dimensions : 2.5-4.5mm long x 1.5-2.5mm wide at base, widening-2.5-4.5mm wide at rim
- Sepal color upper : red to rose-red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : broadly lanceolate
- Sepal tips : apex acute, spreading
- Sepal dimensions : 4-6mm long x 2.5-3.5mm wide
- Corolla opening color : , rose-pink
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : suborbicular to ovate, rounded at the base, rounded to acute at the apex
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 4-6mm long x 3-4mm wide
- Nectary : an irregularly-quadri-lobed ring-shaped disc adnate-the base of the floral tube, 1-1.5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : dull red, the antisepalous erect x exserted above the rim of the tube, 1-1.5mm long, the antipetalous reflexed x included in the tube, 0.8-1.4mm long,
- Anthers : white, 1.5-2.0mm long x 0.9-1.2mm thick
- Pistil :
- Style : stout, 6-8 mm long
- Stigma : capitate and obscurely four-cleft at the apex, 1-1.5mm long x about 1mm thick
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : numerous in terminal racemes, rarely axillary, or occasionally in two to three-branched panicles, rachis 5 to 20 cm long,
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : subglobose, 10-12mm long x 10mm wide when ripe, light to dark red, lustrous
- Seed : reddish, 0.9-1.2mm long x 0.5-0.7mm wide
- Habit : scandent subshrub, glabrous throughout
- Hardiness:
- Height : 0.5-2 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : flowering is throughout the year, the distinguishing features of this species is that it is totally glabrous and its reflexed stamens are only also found in Fuchsia sect. Encliandra
- Named : Alfonso Jiménez-Muñez, a botanist and professor of Agronomy and Biology at the National University of Costa Rica, as well as the director of the National Museum of Costa Rica
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1982
- Botanist : Breedlove, Berry P.E. & Raven P.H.
- Authors : Breedlove, Berry & Raven 1982
- Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 69: 221 1982
- Habitat : scattered in mostly secondary vegetation of wet evergreen cloud forests from Chiriqui Province of northern Panama to the northernmost extension of the Puntarenas Province of Costa Rica
- Elevation : 1500-1900
- Native country : Costa Rica to Panama
- Synonyms : F. arborescens sensu
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite, subcoriaceous, petiole stout, 1 to 2 mm thick, red, 4 to 9 mm long, stipules semisucculent, deltoid, dark when dry, 0.8 to 1.0 mm long and wide, often connate, deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : dark green
- Foliage color lower side : , flushed purple
- Leaf dimensions : (3-) 5-11.5cm long x (1-) 2.5-5cm wide
- Leaf shape : elliptic to lance-elliptic
- Leaf margin : subentire to denticulate with small, glandular teeth
- Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
- Leaf base : acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins ten to twelve on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets 10 to 5o cm long, 1 to 3 mm thick, quadrangular, older branches terete, with pale tan, finely fissured bark