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
