Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, 20-75mm long
- Ovary : oblong, greenish, 5-10mm long x 2-3mm wide
- Tube color : deep lavender to rose violet
- Tube shape : funnelform, glabrous outside, villous inside in the lower part above the nectary
- Tube dimensions : 25-50mm long x 2-4mm wide at the base, slightly constricted in the lower part, then widened until 8-10mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : deep lavender to rose violet
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : ovate-lanceolate, connate for 3 to 4 mm at the base
- Sepal tips : acute to acuminate, divergent to recurved at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 14-25mm long x 4-8mm wide
- Corolla opening color :
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape :
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions :
- Nectary : lustrous green-purplish, 4-5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : purple, the antesepalous ones 9-21mm long, the antepetalous ones 6-16mm long,
- Anthers : oblong, yellow, 3-4.5mm long x 1.5-2.5mm wide,
- Pistil :
- Style : light purple, villous for most of its length,
- Stigma : green, 2.5-4mm long x 2-3mm wide, 4-cleft at apex, exserted 4-8mm beyond the any anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : few, axillary or grouped at branch tips,
- Flower size :
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- Flower bud :
- Fruit : immature berry is oblong, purplish, 16-18mm long x 8-10mm wide
- Seed :
- Habit : terrestrial or commonly epiphytic shrubs, occasionally with small tubers
- Hardiness:
- Height : 0.5-1.5 m
- Light/Climate :
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- Remarks : flowering is principally in the dry season, from June to October
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1898
- Botanist : Kuntze O.
- Authors : Kuntze 1898
- Original publication : Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 97 1898
- Habitat : restricted to cloud forest on the northeast slopes of the Andes in Cochabamba Department
- Elevation : 1900-2800
- Native country : Bolivia
- Synonyms : F. steinbachii, Johnston 1925
- Gametic chromosome number n = 22
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite or less often ternate, membranous, petioles 5 to 9 mm long, stipules triangular to lanceolate, 2 to 3 mm long, 1.5 to 2.5 mm wide, occasionally connate
- Foliage color upper side : glabrous to sparsely puberulent when young
- Foliage color lower side : often purplish
- Leaf dimensions : 35-110mm long x 15-50mm wide
- Leaf shape : (narrowly) ovate
- Leaf margin : subentire to serrulate
- Leaf tip : acuminate
- Leaf base : acute to rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 5 to 7 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : young branches purplish, terete, 1 to 2 mm thick, older branches 4 to 20 mm thick with bark turning tan and exfoliating in strips or flakes