Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : strigillose, 15-20mm long
- 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