Ovary : cylindrical, velutinous-pilulose, 9-11mm long x 2.5-3mm wide
Tube color : bright red pink to light orange
Tube shape : funnelform, finely pubescent outside, villous inside for most of length
Tube dimensions : (36 to) 44-56mm long x 3.5-4.5mm wide and more or less bulbous at the base, then slightly constricted-about 3mm wide and widened gradually above until 6-1 0mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : bright red pink to light orange
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lanceolate to (narrowly) ovate, connate for 3 to 4 mm at the base
Sepal tips : acute to acuminate, divergent at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 17-25mm long x 7-8 (to 9)mm wide
Corolla opening color : yellow green
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Nectary : 2.5-4mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : greenish, the antesepalous ones 14-20mm long, the antepetalous ones 8-13mm long,
Anthers : oblong-ellipsoid, yellow, 3-3.5mm long x about 2mm wide
Pistil :
Style : orange-pink, villous for most of length
Stigma : globose, green, 2-3mm long x about 2mm wide, exserted 6-20mm beyond the stamens
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower :
Flowers : generally few and axillary towards young branch tips,
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Habit : shrub, growing terrestrially in humus, on rocks, or epiphytically in trees, with cylindrical-ellipsoid tubers 1 to 3 cm thick and 8 to 15 cm long usually present
Hardiness:
Height : 0.08-1.5 m
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Remarks : flowers appear mostly at the end of the dry season, from September to November
Named :
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Year (of first description) : 1898
Botanist : Kuntze O.
Authors : Kuntze 1898
Original publication : Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 98 1898
Habitat : rare in cloud forest from Ayacucho Department, Peru, to Cochabamba Department, Bolivia
Elevation : 2400-3400
Native country : Bolivia, southern Peru
Synonyms : F. mattoana, Krause 1906
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite or less often alternate, membranous, petioles pubescent, (10 to) 15 to 33 mm long, stipules narrowly triangular, about 1.5 mm long, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : subglabrous to pilulose
Foliage color lower side : , especially along the nerves
Leaf dimensions : 60-110(-115)mm long x 35-65mm wide
Leaf shape : broadly ovate to ellipticovate
Leaf margin : remotely denticulate
Leaf tip : (sub to) acuminate
Leaf base : acute to cordate
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 6-9 on either side of midvein
Stems :
Branches : young growth velutinous, pilulose or cinereous, branchlets terete, 2 to 4 mm thick, pilulose, older branches with freely exfoliating bark
