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