Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, puberulent, verrucose or with spinescent protuberances, 2-6 cm long
- Ovary : narrowly oblong, 5-6mm long x about 1.5mm wide
- Tube color : bright scarlet, dull pink
- Tube shape : cylindric-funnelform, subglabrous to puberulent outside, pilose inside in lower part
- Tube dimensions : (40 to) 45-54mm long x slightly bulbous and 3-4mm wide at the base, narrowed briefly-2-3mm wide above the nectary, then widened above until 5-8mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : bright scarlet, dull pink
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : narrowly lanceolate
- Sepal tips : acuminate
- Sepal dimensions : 13-17mm long x 4-8mm wide, with a tip about 2mm long in bud
- Corolla opening color : dull scarlet, pink
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, acute to acuminate
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 15-20mm long x 4-8mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed, about 2mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : 12-13mm x 10-11mm long, red
- Anthers : oblong, 2.5-3mm long x 1-1.5mm wide, white
- Pistil :
- Style : densely pilose for most its length, red
- Stigma : subobconic, about 2mm long x 1.5-2mm wide, cream-scarlet
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : few and axillary at the branch tips or subracemose
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : ellipsoid, 12-15mm long x 8mm wide
- Seed :
- Habit : low shrubs
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1.5 – 6 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : found in 1802, flowers are approximately 4,5 cm in length
- Named : after the province and the city of Loja/Loxa in southern Ecuador
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1823
- Botanist : von Humboldt Alexander, Bonpland Aimé & Kunth Karl
- Authors : Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth 1823
- Original publication : Nov. Gen. Sp. 6: 106 1823
- Habitat : locally common in hedgerows along fields and in thickets, mainly in the moderately dry inter-Andean valleys of Ecuador, also on the moister eastern and western slopes, from Loja to Pichincha, with a few scattered collections farther north in Imbabura and Carchi
- Elevation : 2000-3800
- Native country : Ecuador
- Synonyms : F. umbrosa, Bentham 1845, F. apiculata, Johnston 1925, F. hypoleuca, Johnston 1925
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite or ternate, membranous to subcoriaceous, petioles 3 to 9 mm long, stipules narrowly lanceolate or filiform, 2 to 5 mm long, subpersistent
- Foliage color upper side : glabrous to strigillose
- Foliage color lower side : glabrous to strigillose
- Leaf dimensions : 2.5-9(-20)cm long x 1.2-4cm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly oblong to elliptic or oblanceolate
- Leaf margin : conspicuously dentate or serrulate
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : acute
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 9 to 13 (to 25) on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : puberulent or canescent branchlets with spinescent projections, usually appearing papillose or verrucose when dry