Flowers : sepals 2.5 to 4 mm long, 1.5 to 2.5 mm wide at the base, spreading, the apex subacuminate, petals red, 2 to 3 mm long, 2 to 4 mm wide, three-lobed at the apex, nectary 0.7 to 1.2 mm high, entire: style 8 to 12 mm long, the stigma capitate, exserted 3 to 6 mm beyond the rim of the tube: antesepalous stamens exserted above the rim of the tube, antepetalous ones included inside the floral tube, filaments 0.5 to 1.5 mm long: anthers 1.4 to 2.0 mm long, 0.7 to 1.0 mm thick, female flowers, pedicels 6 to 20 mm long, floral tube cylindric-obconic, 4 to 6 mm long, 2 to 2.5 mm wide at the rim, circa 1mm wide at the base, sepals narrowly triangular. 3 to 5 mm long. 1.5 to 2 mm wide at the base, petals 0.7 to 2 mm long, 0.7 to 1.7 mm wide: sterile anthers oblong, 0.5 to 1 mm long, filaments 0.3 to 0.8 mm long, nectary 0.5 to 0.8 mm high, style 7 to 8 mm long, the stigma exserted 1.5 to 2.5 mm beyond the rim of the tube its lobes circa 1 mm long
Flower size :
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Flower bud :
Fruit : subglobose, 5-7mm wide
Seed : 12-20 per berry, 1.9-2.4mm long x 1-1.3mm wide
Habit : shrub
Hardiness:
Height : 1-2 m
Light/Climate :
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Remarks : gynodioecious
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Year (of first description) : 1996
Botanist : Berry P.E. & Breedlove
Authors : (Brandegee) P.E.Berry & Breedlove 1996
Original publication : Novon 6: 137 1996
Habitat : in the mountains of southwestern Chiapas State (Sierra de Soconusco) in Mexico and in scattered localities along the Pacific slope of Guatemala and El Salvador in montane rainforest, evergreen cloud forest, and wet pine-oak forest
Elevation : 1800-2400
Native country : Mexico
Synonyms : F. chiapensis, Brandegee 1914, F. heterotricha, Lundell 1940
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite, membranous, with scattered hairs on the lower surface along the veins, petiole 8-23mm long, stipules narrowly lanceolate, dark brown, ca. 0,5mm wide, 0,5-1mm long, crassate, deciduous
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Leaf dimensions : 15-40(-50)mm long x 8-23(-30)mm wide
Leaf shape : elliptic-ovate
Leaf margin : subentire to dentate
Leaf tip : acute
Leaf base : acute to cuneate
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 4-6 on either side of the midvein
Stems :
Branches : branchlets 5 to 15 cm long, lightly to densely strigose with tan to white hairs
