Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, 3-5mm long, about 1.5mm thick
- Ovary :
- Tube color : bright orange red
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, sparsely to moderately hirsute outside, densely retrorse villous inside in Iower part
- Tube dimensions : 16-20mm long x slightly bulbous and about 2mm wide at the base, gradually widened above until 4-5mm wide at the rim
- Sepal color upper : bright orange red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : lanceolate
- Sepal tips : long acuminate, with free, divergent tips 2 to 3 mm long in bud, divergent with recurved tips at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 6-8mm long x 2.5-3mm wide
- Corolla opening color : orange red
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : delicate, oblong-elliptic, recurved at anthesis
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 6-8mm long x 3-4mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed, about 1mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : orange red, 4-5mm x 2-3mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 1.5-2mm long x about 1mm wide, white
- Pistil :
- Style : glabrous, light red
- Stigma : capitate, subtetragonous, 4-cleft apically, 1.5-2 .mm long x 2-3mm wide, dull white, exserted 1-2mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : numerous and crowded at the tips of terminal, drooping racemes, rachis 3 to 2 0 cm long, bracts narrowly lanceolate, 5 to 15 mm long
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : 15-19mm long x 10-12mm wide, light pubescence, ellipsoid-oblong, 4-sulcate before maturity
- Seed : tan, 1.5mm long x 0.9-1.0mm wide
- Habit : shrub
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-2m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : found between 1835 and 1841 in northern Peru by Andrew Mathew, flowers are 3cm long
- Named : because the plant is covered with short white hairs
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1844
- Botanist : Fielding Henry & Gardner George
- Authors : Fielding & Gardner 1844
- Original publication : Sert. Pl. t. 27 1844
- Habitat : endemic to mid-elevation cloud forest in the mountains east of the Rio Utcubamba in Amazonas department
- Elevation : 1600-2400
- Native country : Peru
- Synonyms : F. asperifolia, Krause 1905
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : opposite to quaternate, usually ternate, membranous, petioles hirsute, 12 to 60 mm long, stipules about 1 mm thick, prominent, lanceolate to triangular, 3 to 4 mm long, about 2 mm wide, often connate and recurved on lower nodes, persistent
- Foliage color upper side : matte green and subglabrous to villous
- Foliage color lower side : slightly paler and villous
- Leaf dimensions : 5-16cm long x 2-7cm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly to broadly elliptic or oblanceolate
- Leaf margin : subentire
- Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
- Leaf base : acute to attenuate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 10 to 12 on either side of the midvein, sulcate above and prominent below
- Stems :
- Branches : densely hirsute young growth, the hairs usually whitish, shaggy, erect, 1.0 to 1.6 mm long, older branches glabrescent, with light tan, finely striated bark