Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : slender, 10-35 (to 50)mm long, pendulous
- Ovary : oblong, (4 to) 5-9mm long x 2-4mm wide
- Tube color : red
- Tube shape : cylindrical fusiform, sub glabrous to puberulent or loosely pilose outside, glabrous inside
- Tube dimensions : 5-9 (to 11)mm long x 2-4 (to 6)mm wide
- Sepal color upper : red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape : narrowly lance-oblong
- Sepal tips : subacuminate, spreading at anthesis.
- Sepal dimensions : 17-28mm long x connate at the base for 2-6mm, free lobes 3-5 (to 6)mm wide at base
- Corolla opening color : purple
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : obovate
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 10-15 (to 20)mm long x 7-13mm wide
- Nectary : smooth, 2.5-5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : reddish, 25-45mm x 20-38mm long
- Anthers : red-purple, oblong-elliptic, 2-2.5mm long x 1-1.5mm wide,
- Pistil :
- Style : glabrous-pilose in lower half
- Stigma : clavate, 2-2.5mm long x 1-1.5mm wide, exserted 5-15mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : flowers solitary or sometimes two per leaf axil, near branch tips
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : globose to ellipsoid, (10 to) 12-16mm long x 9-12mm wide, shiny dark purple when ripe
- Seed : tan, 1.6-2mm long x 1-1.3mm wide
- Habit : erect to scandent shrubs one to three meters high, or climbers in trees or brush to four meters tall
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-3 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : flowering is mainly from November to March. At the top of the escarpments of the coastal mountain ranges this subspecies intergrades with F. regia subsp. Serrae
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1989
- Botanist : Berry P.E.
- Authors : Berry 1989
- Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 76: 577 1989
- Habitat : low wooded areas and usually along streams or seepages, on the planalto west of the Serra Geral and Serra do Mar in south-central Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul
- Elevation : 800-1750
- Native country : Brazil
- Synonyms : F. pubescens, Cambessedes 1839
- Gametic chromosome number n = 44
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : in whorls of three or for to five, firmly membranous, petioles 3 to 7 (to 15) mm long, stipules lanceolate, 0.8 to 1.4 mm long, 0.4 to 1 mm wide, thick at the base, purple, drying dark, divergent to recurved with age, with apiculate, semipersistent tips
- Foliage color upper side : dark dull green and sub glabrous
- Foliage color lower side : pale green and subglabrous to densely pubescent with conspicuous tertiary venation
- Leaf dimensions : 20-65(-90)mm long x 7-20(-40)mm wide
- Leaf shape : (narrowly) elliptic to narrowly ovateelliptic
- Leaf margin : serrulate, usually with prominent glandular teeth ascending apically at a more-or-less 45 degree angle
- Leaf tip : acute
- Leaf base : acute to attenuate or obtuse
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 5 to 8 per side
- Stems :
- Branches : young branches purplish, subglabrous to densely puberulent or pilose, the pubescence ferrugineous in some plants, older stems with reddish to pale tan, readily exfoliating bark