Flowers : perfect flowers, pedicels 6 to 12 mm long, hypanthium subcylindric to cylindric, 7 to 10.5 mm long, 2.9 to 4.2 mm wide at rim, 1.8 to 2.6 mm wide at base, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs outside, sepals 3.5 to 6 long, 2.2 to 2.8 mm wide at base, spreading, the apex mucronate to long acuminate, hypanthium and sepals purplish-red, petals pale purplish-red, 3.5 to 5.8 mm long, 2.5 to 4.4 mm wide, the apex emarginate, slightly pubescent on the outer surface, nectary entire, 1.1 to 1.4 mm high, episepalous stamens exserted 1.4 to 2.4 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, filaments unequal, the episepalous ones 0.9 to 1.3 mm long, the epipetalous ones 1.5 to 1.9 mm long, anthers 1.2 to 1.7 mm long, 0.5 to 0.8 mm thick, style 11.4 to 17.2 mm long, the stigma exserted 4.2 to 7.5 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes spreading, 0.4 to 0.7 mm long. pistillate flowers, pedicels 4 to 10 mm long, hypanthium 3 to 6.5 mm long, 1.4 to 2.6 mm wide at rim, 1.2 to 2 mm wide at base, sepals 2.3 to 4 mm long, 1 to 2.1 mm wide at base, petals 1.6 to 3 mm long, 0.8 to 1.8 mm wide, nectary 0.7 to 0.9 mm high, style 5.4 to 8.6 mm long, the stigma exserted 1.5 to 3 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes 0.8 to 1.3 mm long.
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Seed : 12-18 per berry, 1.8-2.6mm long x 0.9-1.2mm wide
Habit : shrub
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Height : 0.5-3 m
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Year (of first description) : 1969
Botanist : Breedlove
Authors : Breedlove 1969
Original publication : Nov. Gen. Sp. 6: 103 1823
Habitat : in forests of pine, oak, and fir on the higher slopes of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt from Jalisco to Vera Cruz, also in fir and evergreen cloud forests on isolated high mountains of the Sierra Madre Oriental of Hidalgo, the Sierra Madre of Guerrero and the Sierra de Zempoaltepetl of Oaxaca
Elevation : 2100-3200
Native country : Mexico
Synonyms : F. minutiflora var. typica, Munz 1943, F. mixta, Hemsley 1878, F. notarsii, Lehmann 1852, F. uniflora, Sesse & Mociño 1888, Myrinia microphylla, (H. B. K.) Lilja 1840
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : coriaceous, petiole 0.5 to 7 mm long
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Leaf dimensions : 8-30(-40)mm long x 4-12mm wide
Leaf shape : narrowly elliptic to elliptic
Leaf margin : serrate from the apex to the middle, entire from the middle to the base, glabrous to ciliate on the margins
Leaf tip : acute to mucronate
Leaf base : attenuate
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Branches : branchlets 5 to 15 cm long, subglabrous or canescent with white or brown hairs, older branches 5 to 20 mm thick
