Pedicel : pilose, more-or-less divergent, 10-20mm long
Ovary : cylindrical, 5-7mm long x about 2mm wide, loosely pilose
Tube color : red
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, sparsely pilose outside, densely retrorse villous inside in lower part
Tube dimensions : 18-20mm long x about 2mm wide and slightly bulbous at the base, gradually widened above until 3-4.5mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : red
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate, usually noticeably longer than the petals
Sepal tips : acuminate, forming a point about 2 mm long in bud
Sepal dimensions : 10-13mm long x 3-3.5mm wide
Corolla opening color : red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : oblong, acute
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 5-9mm long x about 3mm wide
Nectary : shallowly 4-lobed, about 1.2mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : light red, 5-6mm x 3-4mm long
Anthers : oblong, about 2mm long x about 1mm wide
Pistil :
Style : glabrous, reddish
Stigma : capitate, about 3mm long x about 2mm wide, slightly 4-cleft apically, exserted 2-3mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower :
Flowers : several to numerous in lateral racemes or panicles, rachis 5 to 10 cm long, bracts narrowly lanceolate, long acuminate, pilose, 6 to 12 mm long
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : cylindrical or ellipsoid, 12-13mm long x 6mm wide, subtetragenous, red purple
Seed : 0.9-1.1mm long x 0.7mm wide
Habit : erect to scandent shrub young leaves and shoots mostly densely pilose, older branches pilose to glabrescent, 5 to 13 mm thick, with light tan, finely fissured bark
Hardiness:
Height : 1 – 3 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : found between 1778 and 1788 in central Peru, flowers are approximately 3,5 cm long
Named : because of the large ovate leaves
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1802
Botanist : Ruiz Hipolito & Pavon Jose
Authors : Ruiz & Pavon 1802
Original publication : Fl. Peruv. 3: 87 1802
Habitat : restricted to Huánuco, Pasco, and Junín Departments and rare in cloud forest thickets
Elevation : 2000-2800
Native country : Peru
Synonyms : F. polyanthella, Johnston 1925
Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite to quaternate, firmly membranous, petioles pilose, 2 to 7 cm long, reddish, stipules lanceolate on young nodes, often triangular, connate, and recurved on older stems, 2 to 4 mm long, 2 to 3.5 mm wide
Foliage color upper side : dark green and strigose
Foliage color lower side : paler green and strigose-pilose, especially along the veins
Leaf dimensions : 8-16cm long x 3-7.5cm wide
Leaf shape : broadly elliptic to ovate
Leaf margin : subentire to obscurely denticulate
Leaf tip : acute to short acuminate
Leaf base : rounded to acute
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 14 to 17 on either side of the midvein, emerging from the midvein at more-or-less 90° and becoming gradually incurved towards the margin, anastomosing into a submarginal vein
Stems :
Branches : young leaves and shoots mostly densely pilose, older branches pilose to glabrescent, 5 to 13 mm thick, with light tan, finely fissured bark
