Ovary : narrowly cylindric, 5-8mm long x 2-3mm wide
Tube color : subnitid whitish pink to pale- red
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, glabrous to puberulent outside, densely pilose inside in lower half
Tube dimensions : 18-25mm long x slightly nodose at the base and 1.5-2mm wide, gradually widened above until 4-5mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : subnitid whitish pink to pale- red
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate
Sepal tips : acute to long acuminate, spreading at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 9-15mm long x 3-4mm wide
Corolla opening color : maroon to dark red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : broadly elliptic, acute to rounded at the apex, suberect
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 5-8mm long x about 4mm wide
Nectary : unlobed, 1-1.5mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : light pink, 5-7mm x 3-5mm long
Anthers : oblong, 1-1.5mm long x about 0.8mm wide, cream-pale yellow
Pistil :
Style : glabrous, light pink
Stigma : capitate, 4-lobed in upper part, 1.5-2.5mm long x 2-3mm wide, white
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : few and pendant in upper leaf axils or subracemose at the tips of branches with reduced leaves 10 to 20 mm long subtending the flowers
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : 13mm long x 4-6mm wide, oblong, narrowed apically, rugose before maturity, turning lustrous purple
Seed : 1mm long x 0.6-0.7mm wide
Habit : usually well-branched herbs to subshrub
Hardiness:
Height : 1.8m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : found in 1935 by Arnold Schulze-Rhonhof, flowers are up to 3,5cm long, natural hybridization with in some populations where it is sympatric with F. scabriuscula and F. vulcanica is suspected
Named : because of light colour of the sepals
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1938
Botanist : Diels Friedrich
Authors : Diels 1938
Original publication : Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 14: 34 1938
Habitat : moist, shady cloud forest habitats, restricted to the eastern slopes of the Andes in Ecuador from Azuay to Napo, and disjunct to the west slopes of the Cordillera Occidental in Cauca, Colombia
Elevation : 2550-2900
Native country : Colombia, Ecuador
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite or ternate, thin membranous, petioles slender, (15 to) 25 to 40 (to 50) mm long, glabrous to puberulent, green, stipules triangular, 1 to 1.5 mm long, about 0.5 mm wide, succulent at the base, sometimes connate and reflexed on lower nodes, subpersistent
Foliage color upper side : velvety dark green and glabrous to strigillose
Foliage color lower side : paler and subglabrous to puberulent, especially along the veins
Leaf dimensions : 3.5-7(-9.5)cm long x 1.5-4(-5)cm wide
Leaf shape : elliptic, ovate
Leaf margin : gland-denticulate
Leaf tip : subacuminate
Leaf base : attenuate to rounded
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 5 to 7 (to 9) on either side of the midvein, lightly impressed above and subelevated below
Stems :
Branches : ranchlets subterete, semisucculent, 2 to 4 mm thick, subglabrous, older stems ~8 mm thick, with dull tan, finely fissured bark
