Ovary : oblong, strongly tetragonous, 7-8mm long x 1.5-2mm wide, greenish
Tube color : orange red
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, sparsely strigose outside, villous inside in lower part
Tube dimensions : 44-50mm long x 2.5-4mm wide and slightly bulbous at the base, narrowed-2-2.5mm wide above the nectary, gradually widened above until 7-8mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : orange red
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate
Sepal tips : acuminate, spreading at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 12-14mm long x 3.5-5mm wide
Corolla opening color : orange to red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, (narrowly) acute at the apex
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 9-11mm long x 3-5mm wide
Nectary : green, unlobed, about 1mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : red, 8-10mm x 6-8mm long
Anthers : oblong, 3-3.5mm long x about 1.5mm wide, cream
Pistil :
Style : red, partially villous
Stigma : globose, about 2mm long x 1.5-1.8mm wide, reddish
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : few and axillary, pendant
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : oblong, tetragonous, green before maturity, 15mm long x 6mm wide
Seed :
Habit : erect to scandent shrubs with spreading branches
Hardiness:
Height : 0.5-3 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : natural hybridization with F. steyermarkii is known to occur
Named :
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1888
Botanist : André
Authors : André 1888
Original publication : Rev. Hort. 60: 233 1888
Habitat : known only from the Nudo de Sabanilla area near the border of Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe Provinces
Elevation : 2550-2800
Native country : southern Ecuador
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n =
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite or occasionally ternate, firmly membranous, petioles strigose, purplish, 4 to 15 mm long, stipules lance-linear, dark, 1 to 2 mm long, about 0.3 mm wide, subpersistent
Foliage color upper side : (very) dark nitid green and strigose
Foliage color lower side : shiny green to metallic purple and strigose with long villous hairs along the midvein
Leaf dimensions : 2.5-10cm long x 0.8-2.3cm wide
Leaf shape : (very) narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate
Leaf margin : subentire to slightly revolute
Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
Leaf base : acute
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 6 to 10 on either side of the midvein
Stems :
Branches : branchlets canescent-strigillose, terete, 1 to 2.5 mm thick, purplish, older stems 3 to 10 mm thick, dull purple
