Pedicel : slender, divergent, puberulent, 8-25mm long
Ovary : oblong, 4-5mm long x 1.5-2mm wide, puberulent, reddish
Tube color : nitid orange to coral red
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, finely puberulent outside, pubescent inside in the lower part
Tube dimensions : 15-27mm long x 2-2.5mm wide at the base, slightly constricted-1.5-2mm wide above the nectary, gradually widened above until 4-7mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : nitid orange to coral red
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate
Sepal tips : acuminate, with a 1.5 to 2 mm long tip in bud, divergent at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 8-11mm long x 3-5mm wide
Corolla opening color : orange red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : delicate, elliptic-oblong, obtuse or mucronate at the apex, somewhat erose-margined, strongly spreading and recurved at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 6-9mm long x 3-4mm wide
Nectary : unlobed, 1-1.2mm high, about 0.8mm thick
Stamens :
Filaments : orange red, 4-6mm x 2.5-4mm long
Anthers : elliptic-oblong, 1.5-2.3mm long x about 1mm wide, cream
Flowers : numerous in mostly compact, terminal and subterminal racemes, rachis 1 to 4 (to 10) cm long, bracts lance-linear, 10 to 25 mm long, more-or-less recurved, often deciduous
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : oblong-ellipsoid, 10-12mm long x 5-9mm wide, subnitid red purple
Seed : tan, 1-1.2mm long x 0.6-0.8mm wide
Habit : shrubs or subshrubs
Hardiness:
Height : 1-3 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : natural hybridization with F. nigricans is known to occur
Named :
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1943
Botanist : Munz
Authors : Munz 1943
Original publication : Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. IV, 25: 41 1943
Habitat : in low cloud forest in the Cordillera Occidental of Colombia from Antioquia to Valle, and on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Central and Cordillera Oriental in Colombia and Ecuador, from Cauca south to Napo
Elevation : 1400-2100
Native country : Colombia, Ecuador
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite, firmly membranous, petioles 6 to 15 mm long, puberulent to subglabrous, stipules lance-deltoid, thick at the base and subulate at the apex, occasionally connate, 1 to 2 mm long, 0.4 to 0.8 mm wide, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : matte green and glabrous
Foliage color lower side : pale green and subglabrous to finely puberulent along the subelevated nerves
Leaf dimensions : 6-15cm long x 3-7cm wide
Leaf shape : elliptic
Leaf margin : subentire
Leaf tip : acute to subacuminate
Leaf base : rounded to acute
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 9 to 13 on either side of the midvein, impressed above
Stems :
Branches : young growth minutely puberulent, branchlets terete, 2 to 5 mm thick, green to dull purple, older stems pale tan gray, with finely fissured bark
