Tube shape : cylindrical-fusiform, glabrous to puberulent outside
Tube dimensions : (6 to) 7-15mm long x 3-7mm wide
Sepal color upper : bright red
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape :
Sepal tips : spreading to most often recurved or rarely reflexed at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : (15 to)19-34mm long x connate at the base for (5 to) 8-10 (to 14)mm and forming a long x usually four-ridged sepal tube, the free lobes (4 to) 5-7mm wide at base
Corolla opening color : violet
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : obovate to spathulate
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 11-20mm long x 8-15mm wide
Nectary : more-or-less smooth, 5-8mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : red, 22-48 x 20-40mm long
Anthers : red-purple, 3-4mm long x 1.5–mm wide,
Pistil :
Style : red, glabrous-pilose near base
Stigma : red, clavate, 2-4mm long x 1-2mm wide, exserted 15-23mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : solitary in the upper leafaxils
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : oblong, 16-26mm long x 9-13mm wide, purple when ripe
Seed : 2-2.5mm long x 11.5mm wide
Habit : scandent to climbing shrubs or lianas to fifteen meters high in trees
Hardiness:
Height : 1-4 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : flowering is mainly from November to March, occasionally in other months. Natural hybridization with F. brevilobis, F. regia subsp. regia and F. regia subsp. reitzii is known to occur
Named :
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1989
Botanist : Berry P.E.
Authors : Berry 1989
Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 76: 577 1989
Habitat : scandent to climbing in high trees typical of the dense cloud forests on the crest and wet, coastal escarpments of the Serra do Mar and Serra Geral, in Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo and southern Rio de Janeiro States at elevations from 500 to 1,450 meters. It is also found at lower elevations on the top of isolated morros in the Atlantic coastal forest of Santa Catarina, or rarely occurs near sea level in coastal resting as in northern Rio Grande do Sul and southern Santa Catarina
Elevation : 500-1450
Native country : Brazil
Synonyms : F. affinis, Cambessedes 1830, F. radicans, Miers 1841, F. regia var. affinis, (Cambessedes) Munz 1943, F. regia var. radicans, (Miers) Munz 1943
Gametic chromosome number n = 44
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite or in whorls of three to four, coriaceous, petioles 1.5 to 3 mm thick, usually dull purple, canaliculate above, (7 to)10 to 24 (to 35) mm long, stipules prominent, crassate, 2 to 3 mm wide, 2 to 3 mm long, about 0.5 mm thick, recurved, persistent, adjacent ones sometimes fused, drying tan-colored and giving a nodose appearance to the stems
Foliage color upper side : smooth and lustrous dark green, glabrous to lightly pubescent
Foliage color lower side : pale green, glabrous to lightly pubescent
Leaf dimensions : (35-) 60-110mm long x (15-) 25-45mm wide
Leaf shape : (narrowly) ovate to elliptic
Leaf margin : subentire
Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
Leaf base : rounded to acute and sometimes ± uneven
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 5 to 8 (to 10) per side
Stems :
Branches : branchlets generally finely puberulent, sometimes sub glabrous or densely shortpilose, the lateral ones often short and divaricate, older branches on large plants hanging to six meters long, with basal stems to 6 cm in diameter
