Pedicel : slender, strigose, 18-30mm long, ascending in bud-divergent at anthesis
Ovary : cylindric-fusiform, 6-8mm long x 1-2mm wide
Tube color : pink to bright red
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, pilose outside, retrorse villous inside in lower part
Tube dimensions : 16-23mm long x 1.5-2.5mm wide and slightly bulbous at the base, narrowed-1-1.5mm above the nectary, then widened gradually above until 3-5mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : pink to bright red
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate
Sepal tips : acute, spreading at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 7-9mm long x 3-4mm wide
Corolla opening color : pink to red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : oblong, obtuse to mucronate at the apex, spreading at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 6-9mm long x 3-5mm wide
Nectary : unlobed or shallowly 4-lobed, about 1.5mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : pink-red, 5-7mm x 3-4mm long
Anthers : oblong, about 2mm long x about 1.2mm wide, white
Pistil :
Style : light red, retrorse villous in lower ~
Stigma : capitate, 1.5-2mm long x 1.5-2mm wide, four-parted at the apex, white-light pink, exserted 2-3mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower :
Flowers : usually five to ten and nodding in a generally compact, terminal, corymbose raceme, rachis 1.5 to 7 cm long
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : ellipsoid to subglobose, 13-17mm long x 8-11mm wide
Seed : 1.4-1.6mm long x 1mm wide
Habit : erect subshrubs one half to one and a half meters tall
Hardiness:
Height : 0.5-1.5 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : natural hybridization with F. sanctae-rosae is known to occur
Named :
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1939
Botanist : Johnston I.M.
Authors : Johnston 1939
Original publication : J. Arnold Arbor. 20: 242 1939
Habitat : Endemic to Cuzco Department and locally common in damp, shady thickets along streams and roadsides, on the eastern slopes of the Andes in the Pillahuata area between Paucartambo, and Pilcopata and also known from Convención Province farther north
Elevation : 1800-2800
Native country : Peru
Synonyms :
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite or sometimes subopposite near the branch tips, softly membranous, petioles strigose, 13 to 50 mm long, stipules lanceolate, dark, 1 to 2 mm long, subpersistent
Foliage color upper side : velvety dark green and strigillose
Foliage color lower side : pale green or commonly purple flushed and strigose, pubescence denser along the nerves
Leaf dimensions : 3-14cm long x 1.5-9cm wide
Leaf shape : ovate-elliptic to broadly ovate
Leaf margin : glandular-denticulate to coarsely dentate
Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
Leaf base : acute to rounded or unequal
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 11 to 18 on either side of the midvein, sulcate above
Stems :
Branches : young growth whitish pilose, turning tan to reddish-brown with age, older stems 4 to 10 mm thick, with light brown, striated bark
