Pedicel : spreading-drooping, slender, subglabrous-strigose, 35-75mm long
Ovary : narrowly cylindrical
Tube color : rose to bright red
Tube shape : narrowly to broadly cylindric, pubescent or with glandular hairs outside, subglabrous or loosely strigose inside in lower part
Tube dimensions : 20-46(-64)mm long x 4-9mm wide and usually ventricose and laterally compressed at the base around the nectary, ± dilated in upper half, 5-15mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : green with reddish base
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate
Sepal tips : spreading at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 8-20mm long x 5-8mm wide
Corolla opening color : yellow green
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : ovate, rounded to cordate at the base, subacuminate at the apex, erect
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 6-12mm long x 4-8mm wide
Nectary : a lustrous yellow band ca. 0.4mm thick lining the basal 4-8mm of the tube
Stamens : stamens exserted beyond petals
Filaments : pale yellow green, the antisepalous ones 10-20mm long, the antipetalous ones 6-14mm long x inserted on the tube ca. 1mm below the insertion of the petals
Anthers : oblong, yellow, 2-3mm long x 1-2mm wide
Pistil :
Style : glabrous, pale green, 40-76 mm long
Stigma : green, subconic, 2-3mm long x 1-2mm wide, four-parted at the apex
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower :
Flowers : flowers axillary and solitary in upper leafy nodes of the year’s branches
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Fruit : elongate, 20-40mm long x 5-8mm wide, verrucose, green to dark purple when ripe
Seed : 1.5-2mm long x 0.5mm wide
Habit : few- to many-branched, soft-wooded shrub, terrestrial or occasionally epiphytic on trees
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Remarks : F. splendens has the widest range of the three species in this section and exhibits a pronounced variation in the length of its floral tubes throughout its range. It is also unique in its green petals and the lateral compression of the tube. It flowers throughout the year.
Original publication : Flora 15(2 Beibl.): 102 1832
Habitat : scattered in a few moist forests in Guerrero and Oaxaca but more common in cloud forest and moist oak-pine forest from Chiapas to Costa Rica
Elevation : 2400-3400
Native country : Costa Rica, Mexico
Synonyms : F. cordifolia, Bentham 1841, F. intermedia, Hemsley 1878
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite or occasionally ternate, membranous, petioles reddish, pubescent, 12 to 80 mm long, stipules lance-filiform, 1 to 2 mm long, ca. 0.3 mm wide, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : pale to dark green and subglabrous to pilose or villous
Foliage color lower side : lighter green below or red tinged and similarly pubescent, especially along nerves
Leaf dimensions : 35-130mm long x 20-75mm wide
Leaf shape : ovate to cordate
Leaf margin : dentate to serrate
Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
Leaf base : rounded to cordate
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 5 to 9 on either side of the midvein
Stems :
Branches : branchlets 5 to 30 cm long, 1 to 3 mm thick, triangular to quadrangular, subglabrous to densely short-pilose or villous, older branches with smooth reddish bark, exfoliating freely with age, 0.5 to 3 m long and 8 to 40 mm thick
