Tube shape : obconic funnelform, subglabrous outside, glabrous within
Tube dimensions : 19-31mm long x 3-4mm wide and slightly bulbous at the base, then widened continuously until 9-16mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : bright red to pink red
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate
Sepal tips : acute to acuminate at the apex, suberect to spreading at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 18-25mm long x 6-8mm wide
Corolla opening color : red to pink red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : broadly obovate, emarginate to broadly truncate at the apex, slightly spreading and convolute at the base at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 13-2 4mm long x 10-15mm wide
Nectary : a yellow-green band lining the basal 2-3mm of the floral tube, irregularly-lobed and protruding slightly inwards from the tube
Stamens :
Filaments : red, 15-18mm x 12-13mm long
Anthers : oblong, 2.5-3mm long x 1.5-2mm wide, white-yellow cream
Pistil :
Style : red, glabrous
Stigma : clavate, 4-lobed at the apex, 3-3.5mm long x 2-3mm wide, pink-red
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower :
Flowers : pendant and axillary near the branch tips
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : oblong, 15mm long x 8mm wide
Seed : 2mm long x 1mm wide
Habit : erect to scandent shrubs tall with ascending to spreading branches
Hardiness:
Height : 0.5-2 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : natural hybridization with F. triphylla is known to occur
Named :
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1899
Botanist : Urban
Authors : Urban 1899
Original publication : Symb. Antill. 1: 375 1899
Habitat : in Haiti, in the southern Massif de la Hotte and Massif de la Selle ranges and in the central Chaîne des Matheux at elevations from 1,400 to 2,500 meters. In the Dominican Republic, in the southern Sierra de Baoruco, probably in the Sierra de Neiba, and in the Cordillera Central at elevations from (1,300 to) 1,500 to 2,600 meters as low shrubs mostly in pine forests
Elevation : 1300-2600
Native country : Domenican Republic, Haiti, Hispaniola
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 22
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite or ternate, subcoriaceous, petioles sparsely strigose, 1 to 6 mm long, red purple, stipules lanceolate, dark, 11.5 mm long, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : dark rich green and glossy, glabrous to loosely strigose
Foliage color lower side : subglossy whitish-green to purplish with red purple veins, strigose, especially along the midvein and margin
Leaf dimensions : 15-35(-40)mm long x 6-15mm wide
Leaf shape : narrowly (ob to) lanceolate to elliptic
Leaf margin : subentire to glandular-denticulate or dentate, sometimes only toothed in the upper half
Leaf tip : acute
Leaf base : acute to narrowly cuneate
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 3 to 5 on either side of the midvein
Stems :
Branches : branchlets terete, puberulent, pruinose, or rarely pilose, reddish purple, older stems with red brown, exfoliating bark
