Ovary : oblong-cylindric, tetragonous, 10-12mm long x 2.5-3mm wide, lustrous light green,
Tube color : bright orange or scarlet
Tube shape : obconic, subglabrous inside and outside
Tube dimensions : 3-6mm long x 2.5-3mm wide at the base, 4-4.5mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : bright orange or scarlet
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : lance-oblong, acute at the apex, spreading to recurved at anthesis
Sepal tips :
Sepal dimensions : 7-11mm long x 2-4.5mm wide at the base
Corolla opening color : petals red orange
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : oblongobovate, obtuse to subacute at the apex, margin more-or-less undulate, central nerve more-or-less thickened, spreading and convolute at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 8-9mm long x 5-6mm wide
Nectary : green and composed of four distinct antesepalous, ridged lobes about 1.5mm high, about 0.5mm thick, adnate-the base of the floral tube
Stamens :
Filaments : light red, 2-3mm x 1-1.5mm long
Anthers : broadly reniform, 1.5-2.5mm long x 1.5-2mm wide, white,
Pistil :
Style : glabrous, stout, red, 6-8 mm long
Stigma : clavate, slightly four-cleft at the apex, 2.5-4mm long x about 2mm wide, light pink-cream, barely exserted beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower :
Flowers : solitary in upper leafaxils,
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : tetragonous until maturity, ellipsoid or broadly cylindric when ripe, 20-25mm long x 10mm wide
Seed : 1.4-1.6mm long x 0.7mm wide
Habit : erect to scandent, mostly glabrous subshrubs
Hardiness:
Height : 0,5-2 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : hermaphroditic
Named : verrucosa means “covered in warts” or “warty”
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1845
Botanist : Hartweg
Authors : Hartweg ex Benth 1845. Berry 1982
Original publication : Pl. Hartw. 178 1845
Habitat : infrequent occurrence in wet, shady banks and along streams in the Cordillera Oriental of the Northern Andes from southern Merida in Venezuela to Huila in Colombia, and then on the eastern edge of the Nudo de Pasto in Putumayo
Elevation : 1800-3050
Native country : Colombia, Venezuela
Synonyms : F. perbrevis J. M. Johnston 1925, F. verrucosa var. tamaensis Steyermark 1952
Gametic chromosome number n = 22
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite, firmly membranous, often with strigose hairs along the veins, petioles stout, 5 to 22 mm long, stipules firm to semisucculent, (narrowly) triangular, 2 to 4 mm long, 1 to 2 mm wide, separate or connate, subpersistent
Foliage color upper side : dark matte green
Foliage color lower side : pale or flushed purple
Leaf dimensions : 5-16cm long x 2-8cm wide
Leaf shape : broadly elliptic to obovate
Leaf margin : glandular-serrulate
Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
Leaf base : acute to attenuate
Pubescence :
Veins : midvein prominent below, secondary veins ten to twenty on either side of the midvein, subparallel and anastomosing 1 to 3 mm before the margin to form a distinct submarginal vein
Stems :
Branches : ranchlets subterete, 2 to 4 mm thick, verrucose, green to dull purple, older stems terete, with light gray tan, finely fissured bark
