Flowers : perfect flowers, pedicels 5 to 11 mm long, hypanthium subcylindric, 7 to 11 mm long, 2.4 to 3.7 mm wide at rim, 1.4 to 2.5 mm wide at base, pubescent, sepals 3.5 to 5.2 mm long, 1.4 to 2.6 wide at base, reflexed to spreading, the apex acuminate to caudate, hypanthium and sepals red, petals red, 1.6 to 2.4 mm long, 1.4 to 1.7 mm wide, the apex rounded, puberulent, nectary entire, 0.9 to 1.2 mm long, episepalous stamens exserted 1.2 to 1.6 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, filaments unequal, the episepalous ones 0.8 to 1 mm long, the epipetalous ones 1.2 to 1.5 mm long, anthers 1.2 to 1.6 mm long, 0.5 to 0.7 mm thick, style 12.5 to 19.2 mm long, the stigma exserted 3.5 to 8 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes suberect, 0.5 to 0.9 mm long. pistillate flowers, pedicel 4 to 9 mm long; hypanthium 3.4 to 4.6 mm long, 1.1 to 1.6 mm wide at rim, 0.8 to 1.1 mm wide at base; sepals 2.8 to 3.6 mm long, 0.9 to 1.2 mm wide at base ; petals 0.7 to 1.2 mm long, 0.4 to 0.8 mm wide; nectary 0.7 to 0.9 mm high; style 5.2 to 6.1 mm long, the stigma exserted 1.5 to 2.3 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes 0.8 to 1.2 mm long.
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Seed : 16-24 per berry, 2-2.1mm long x 0.9-1.1mm wide
Habit : shrub, occasionally epiphytic
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Height : 1-4 m
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Year (of first description) : 1969
Botanist : Breedlove
Authors : (Woodson & Seibert) Breedlove 1969
Original publication : Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 53: 47 1969
Habitat : common in the understory of evergreen cloud forests on the high volcanos of Costa Rica and northern Panama
Elevation : 1500-3100
Native country : Costa Rica, Panama
Synonyms : F. hemsleyana, Woodson & Seibert 1937, F. pulchella, Woodson & Seibert 1937
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : subcoriaceous, the margins and main veins ciliate, petiole 4-15 mm long
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Leaf dimensions : 0.2-30mm long x 6-12mm wide
Leaf shape : lanceolate to elliptic
Leaf margin : entire to serrate
Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
Leaf base : attenuate
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Branches : branchlets 5 to 30 cm long, canescent with white hairs, older branches 5 to 25 mm thick
