Ovary : ovoid-ellipsoid, strongly tetragonous, 6-9mm long x 2-3.5mm wide, hirsute-strigose, green-dull red
Tube color : subnitid scarlet, pink, or orange red
Tube shape : narrowly funnelform, hirsute to strigose or subglabrous outside, pilose inside for most its length
Tube dimensions : (32 to) 36-50 (to 60)mm long x 3-4mm wide and somewhat bulbous at the base, narrowed-2-3.5mm wide above the nectary, then gradually widened or slightly ampliate near the middle until 6-10mm wide at the rim
Sepal color upper : subnitid scarlet, pink, or orange red, sometimes dull, green tipped
Sepal color lower :
Sepal shape : (narrowly) lanceolate
Sepal tips : acute to subacuminate at the apex, spreading to divergent at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : (10 to) 13-2 0 (to 23).mm long x 3.5-5mm wide
Corolla opening color : red
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : orbicular to obovate or broadly elliptic, rounded to (broadly) acute at the apex, spreading to divergent at anthesis
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : (8 to) 9-15mm long x (6 to) 8-13mm wide
Nectary : unlobed or shallowly 4-lobed, 1.5-2mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : red, 8-12mm x 6-9mm long
Anthers : oblong, 3-4mm long x 1.5-2mm wide, cream
Pistil :
Style : red, villous for most its length
Stigma : conic-globose, slightly 4-cleft apically, 2-3.5mm long x 1.5-4mm wide, red
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : generally fewer than 12 per branch, axillary and pendant
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : tetragonous before maturity, subglobose to ellipsoid when ripe, 11-15mm long x 7-9mm wide, red purple
Seed : tan, 1.8-2.5mm long x 0.9-1.2mm wide
Habit : erect to scandent shrubs, sometimes semi-epiphytic on mossy tree trunks
Hardiness:
Height : 0.4-3.5 m
Light/Climate :
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Remarks : natural hybridization with F. ampliata is known to occur
Named :
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Year (of first description) : 1888
Botanist : André
Authors : André 1888
Original publication : Rev. Hort. 60: 233 1888
Habitat : along the Cordillera Occidental from Nariño, Colombia to Cotopaxi, Ecuador, in elfin forest near the tree line at elevations from 3,400 to 4,000 meters, on the Cordillera Central (eastern escarpment of the Ecuadorian Andes) from Napo to Chimborazo, from the tree line at 3,900 meters to 2,500 meters in cloud forest, and in the mountains of Azuay and Cafiar from the tree line to upper cloud forest at elevations from 2,850 to 3,400 meters
Elevation : 2500-4000
Native country : Colombia, Ecuador
Synonyms : F. hitchcockii, Johnston 1925
Gametic chromosome number n = 11 or 22
FOLIAGE
Leaves : 3 to 5-verticillate, mostly ternate or quaternate, firmly membranous to subcoriaceous, petioles pubescent, 2 to 10 (to 20) mm long, stipules narrowly lanceolate, 1.5 to 2.5 mm long, 0.3 to 0.7 mm wide, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : matte to subnitid green and usually strigose
Foliage color lower side : lighter green and hirsute to strigose
Leaf dimensions : 2-5(-10)cm long x (0.6-) 1-2.5(-4)cm wide
Leaf shape : narrowly to broadly elliptic to obovate
Leaf margin : subentire to denticulate
Leaf tip : acute to obtuse
Leaf base : acute to obtuse
Pubescence :
Veins : secondary veins 3 to 8 (to 11) on either side of the midvein, often red below
Stems :
Branches : branchlets terete, 1.5 to 3 mm thick, densely hirsute to hirtellous or strigillose, usually with erect, white to tan hairs, older stems 3 to 10 mm thick with exfoliating bark
