Ovary : cylindrical, 8-12mm long x 3-5mm wide, green, verrucose, 4-8 sulcate
Tube color : pale to dark red
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, subglabrous to villous outside, sparsely pilose inside in lower part, tube firm-spongy, 1 to1.5 mm thick when fresh, often curved downward in distal part
Tube dimensions : 50-60mm long x 2-5mm wide and bulbous at the base, gradually widened above until 4-10mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : red with dull green tips
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lance-oblong, thick-spongy, 1 to 2 mm thick when fresh
Sepal tips : apiculate, divergent, tips free and spreading in bud
Sepal dimensions : 14-23mm long x 7-8mm wide
Corolla opening color : bright red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : shorter than the sepals, orbicular to broadly obovate, undulate, rounded at the apex, strongly spreading
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 12-18mm long x 10-19mm wide
Nectary : green, unlobed, about 3mm high and about 1.5mm thick
Stamens :
Filaments : red, 8-12mm x 5-8mm long
Anthers : oblong, 2.5-3.5mm long x about 1.5mm wide
Pistil :
Style : pink, sparsely pubescent-subglabrous
Stigma : massive, tetragonous, 3-5mm long x 4-6mm wide, with four mound-like, sticky lobes, cream-pink
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : few and axillary in upper nodes
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Flower bud :
Fruit : ellipsoid, eight-sulcate until fully ripe, verrucose, 20-22mm long x 8-12mm wide
Seed : tan brown, 2-2.5mm long x 1.2-1.6mm wide
Habit : erect shrub
Hardiness:
Height : 0.5-1.5 m
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Remarks :
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Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1844
Botanist : Bentham
Authors : Bentham 1844
Original publication : Pl. Hartw. 129 1844
Habitat : infrequent in moist cloud forest thickets on Pacific slopes
Elevation : 1000-2500
Native country : Ecuador, Colombia
Synonyms : F. longiflora, Bentham 1845, F. spectabilis, Hooker 1848, F. spectabilis var. pubens, Johnston 1925, F. macrostigma var. longiflora, Bentham 1845 and Munz 1943, F. macrostigma var. typica, Munz 1943, F. macrostigma var. macrostigma 1974
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FOLIAGE
Leaves : leaves opposite or less often ternate, firmly membranous, petioles stout, 2 to 3 mm thick, 15 to 30 (to 35) mm long, strigose, green to purple, stipules dark, triangular, sometimes connate, 2 to 2.5 mm long, about 2 mm wide, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : velvety dark green and subglabrous to puberulent
Foliage color lower side : pale green to wine purple with strigose to villous pubescence mostly along the veins
Leaf dimensions : 6-27cm long x 3-12cm wide
Leaf shape : narrowly to broadly elliptic, (ob-)ovate
Leaf margin : remotely denticulate with small, glandular teeth
Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
Leaf base : acute
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 9 to 15 (to 22) on either side of the midvein
Stems :
Branches : branchlets stout, sub succulent, 2 to 7 mm thick, terete or angled, green. to dull purple, older branches 8 to 15 mm thick, dull tan, with finely fissured bark
