Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : firm, 15-60mm long, mostly red
- Ovary : ovoid-ellipsoid, glabrous, 7-10 (to 11)mm long x 3-3.5mm wide
- Tube color : slightly purplish at the base and orange red above
- Tube shape : subcylindric, firm-fleshy, about 1 mm thick when fresh, glabrous inside and outside
- Tube dimensions : (35 to) 42-60mm long x 3.5-6mm wide at the base, sometimes slightly narrowed above the nectary, very gradually widened above until 6-10mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : nitid orange red with greenish tips
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lanceolate, blunt-tipped in bud
- Sepal tips : acute to subacuminate, spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 13-18 (to 22)mm long x 4-5 (to 6)mm wide
- Corolla opening color : orange red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : suborbicular to obovate or subrhomboid, sometimes with irregular margins, usually with a narrowly acute tip
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 11-19mm long x 7-12 (to 18)mm wide
- Nectary : an uneven band of lustrous tissue lining the basal 3-6mm of the floral tube, without prominent lobes
- Stamens :
- Filaments : light red, 12-16mm x 8-13mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 3.5-4mm long x about 2.5mm wide, cream
- Pistil :
- Style : light red-orange, glabrous
- Stigma : capitate, lightly 4-cleft apically, 2-3mm long x 2-4mm wide, tight red-orange, exserted ~10mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : pendant and solitary in upper leafaxils
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : ellipsoid, dark purple, 20-24mm long x 10-12mm wide
- Seed : 2-2.5mm long x 1-1.3mm wide
- Habit : shrubs, young growth glabrous to lightly strigose
- Hardiness:
- Height : 2-5 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks :
- Named : after the Colombian province of Magdalena
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1943
- Botanist : Munz
- Authors : Munz 1943
- Original publication : Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. IV, 25: 41 1943
- Habitat : endemic to upper cloud forest of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northeastern Colombia
- Elevation : 2000-3350
- Native country : Colombia
- Synonyms : F. lampadaria, Wright 1979
- Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : ternate or less often quaternate, firmly membranous to subcoriaceous, margin denticulate or subentire, petioles purplish, sparsely strigose, 4 to 25 (to 30) mm long, stipules lanceolate to triangular, dark, about 1 mm long, deciduous
- Foliage color upper side : dark green and mostly glabrous
- Foliage color lower side : pale green with purplish veins and glabrous, except for hairs usually present along the margin
- Leaf dimensions : 2.5-8.5(-12)cm long x 1-4(-6)cm wide
- Leaf shape : (narrowly) elliptic to ovate
- Leaf margin :
- Leaf tip : acute to subacuminate
- Leaf base : acute to rounded
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 8 to 14 one either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets purplish, older branches red brown, with bark exfoliating in strips