Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : puberulent, 5-10mm long
- Ovary : fusiform, puberulent, 6-7mm long x about 2mm wide
- Tube color : red
- Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, finely puberulent outside, pilose inside in lower ~
- Tube dimensions : 34mm long x slightly nodose and 2.5-3.5mm wide at the base, narrowed-about 2mm above the nectary, then widened above until 5-7mm wide ..at the rim
- Sepal color upper : red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : narrowly lanceolate
- Sepal tips : acuminate, with a narrow tip 1.5 to 2 mm long in bud
- Sepal dimensions : 10-15mm long x about 3mm wide
- Corolla opening color : red, a little darker than the sepals
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, subacuminate
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 8-14mm long x 2.5-4mm wide
- Nectary : unlobed, about 1mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : red, 8-11mm x 6-7mm long
- Anthers : oblong, 2-2.5mm long x about 1.5mm wide
- Pistil :
- Style : red, sparsely pilose in lower ~
- Stigma : capitate, slightly four-parted at the apex, 2-3mm long x about 2mm wide, dull white, exserted 3-4mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower :
- Flowers : numerous in terminal, nodding, verticillately branched panicles, rachis 8 to 15 cm long, bracts narrowly lance-ovate, recurved, 10 to 30 mm long, 5 to 10 mm wide
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : young berries oblong, 8-10mm long x 5-7mm wide
- Seed :
- Habit : erect shrubs
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-2 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks :
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1943
- Botanist : Killip
- Authors : Killip 1943
- Original publication : Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. IV, 25: 48 1943
- Habitat : rare in cloud forest on the western slopes of the Cordillera Occidental from Nariño, Colombia south to Pichincha, Ecuador
- Elevation : 2200-3300
- Native country : Colombia, Ecuador
- Synonyms : F. asperifolia, Krause 1905
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : quaternate, firmly membranous, petioles puberulent, purplish, 3 to 10 mm long, stipules dark, thick at the base, triangular, 1.5 to 2 mm long, about 1 mm wide, often connate and recurved when old, persistent
- Foliage color upper side : nitid dark green and subglabrous
- Foliage color lower side : light green and sparsely puberulent, especially along the veins
- Leaf dimensions : 7-12cm long x 2.5-4cm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly elliptic-lanceolate
- Leaf margin : subentire to serrate
- Leaf tip : acuminate
- Leaf base : acute to obtuse
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 13 to 16 on either side of the midvein
- Stems :
- Branches : young growth minutely puberulent-canescent, branchlets puberulent, terete, purplish