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'''''Fuchsia simplicicaulis''''' is a species of [[shrub]] in the family [[Onagraceae]].<ref name="Berry 1982">{{Cite journal|last=Berry|first=P.E.|date=1982|title=The systematics and evolution of Fuchsia sect. Fuchsia (Onagraceae)|journal=Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden|language=en|volume=69|issue=1|pages=148–149|doi=10.2307/2398789|jstor=2398789|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/8246 }}</ref> It is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[Peru]].<ref name="Berry 1982" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Peruvian Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide to the High Andes|last1=Walker|first1=Barry|last2=Cheshire|first2=Gerard|last3=Lloyd|first3=Huw|date=2007|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|isbn=9781841621678|pages=29|language=en}}</ref> Its [[Herbaria]] type is electrotype MA 11/92 11.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fuchsia simplicicaulis {{!}} International Plant Names Index |url=https://www.ipni.org/n/106280-2 |website=www.ipni.org |access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref>
'''''Fuchsia simplicicaulis''''' is a species of [[shrub]] in the family [[Onagraceae]].<ref name="Berry 1982">{{Cite journal|last=Berry|first=P.E.|date=1982|title=The systematics and evolution of Fuchsia sect. Fuchsia (Onagraceae)|journal=Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden|language=en|volume=69|issue=1|pages=148–149|doi=10.2307/2398789|jstor=2398789|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/8246 }}</ref> It is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[Peru]].<ref name="Berry 1982" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Peruvian Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide to the High Andes|last1=Walker|first1=Barry|last2=Cheshire|first2=Gerard|last3=Lloyd|first3=Huw|date=2007|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|isbn=9781841621678|pages=29|language=en}}</ref> Its [[Herbaria]] type is electrotype MA 11/92 11.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fuchsia simplicicaulis {{!}} International Plant Names Index |url=https://www.ipni.org/n/106280-2 |website=www.ipni.org |access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref>
==Description==
==Description==
''Fuchsia simplicicaulis'' is a scandent shrub, 2-5 m tall, with sparsely verticillately branched stems and pendulous ultimate branches. Branchlets are subterete and puberulent, with older stems having light red, exfoliating bark.
''Fuchsia simplicicaulis'' is a [[scandent]] shrub growing 2-5 m tall, with branched stems. Young branches are subterete and hairy, with mature stems having red flaking bark.
The leaves are ternate or quaternate, membranous, and linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 8-15 cm long, and 1-3.5 cm wide. They are glabrous above and glabrous to scattered pilose below or along the margin, with 10-18 secondary veins on either side of the midvein. The margin is subentire, and the petioles are 2-6 mm long. Stipules are triangular, 1-2 mm long, and subpersistent.
The leaves are lanceolate 8-15 x 1-3.5 cm wide. They are glabrous above and glabrous or pilose below along the veins. The petioles are 2-6 mm long. Stipules are triangular and 1-2 mm long.
The flowers are in simple to multiple, pendant, involucrate racemes, with 3-4 flowers per whorl. The internodes are 1.5-6 cm long, and the rachis is 8-30 cm long. Bracts are thinly membranous, ovate-lanceolate, and acuminate at the apex. Pedicels are puberulent, 5-10 mm long. The ovary is oblong-ellipsoid, puberulent or velutinous, 5-6 mm long, and 2-2.5 mm thick. The floral tube is narrowly funnelform, 40-50 mm long, and bulbous at the base. Sepals are lanceolate, puberulent on both sides, and acuminate, 16-20 mm long, and ca. 4 mm wide. Petals are red, linear-lanceolate to elliptic, acute to narrowly acuminate at the apex, 9-13 mm long, and 2-3(-5) mm wide.
The pendant flowers bloom single to multiple on a 8-30 cm long rachis in racemes with 3-4 flowers. Bracts are ovate-lanceolate, and sharp at the apex. The ovary is 5-6 x 2-2.5 mm. The floral tube is funnel shaped 40-50 mm long. Sepals are lanceolate, puberulent 16-20 x 4 mm. Petals are red, linear-lanceolate 9-13 x 2-3(-5) mm. The filaments are 10-12 x 7-8 mm. The style is pilose from base of the flower to the edge of the tube.
The nectary is apparently unlobed, ca. 1.5 mm high, and filaments are 10-12 mm and 7-8 mm long. Anthers are oblong, 3-4 mm long, and ca. 2 mm wide. The style is pilose from base up to the rim of the tube, and the stigma is globose, 4-parted at the apex, 2.5-3.5 mm long, and ca. 2 mm wide.


The berry is ellipsoid, puberulent, 11-13 mm long, and ca. 8 mm thick. Seeds are tan, ca. 1.2 mm long, and ca. 0.7 mm wide.<ref name="Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution z343">{{cite web | title=Onagraceae | website=Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution | url=https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/onagraceae/speciesdescr.cfm?myID=3824 | access-date=2024-04-25}}</ref>
The fruit is ellipsoid, puberulent, 11-13 x 8 mm. Seeds are tan, 1.2 x 0.7 mm wide.<ref name="Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution z343">{{cite web | title=Onagraceae | website=Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution | url=https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/onagraceae/speciesdescr.cfm?myID=3824 | access-date=2024-04-25}}</ref>
==References==
==References==
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Revision as of 00:34, 12 May 2024

Fuchsia simplicicaulis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Onagraceae
Genus: Fuchsia
Species:
F. simplicicaulis
Binomial name
Fuchsia simplicicaulis
Ruiz & Pav.

Fuchsia simplicicaulis is a species of shrub in the family Onagraceae.[1] It is endemic to Peru.[1][2] Its Herbaria type is electrotype MA 11/92 11.[3]

Description

Fuchsia simplicicaulis is a scandent shrub growing 2-5 m tall, with branched stems. Young branches are subterete and hairy, with mature stems having red flaking bark. The leaves are lanceolate 8-15 x 1-3.5 cm wide. They are glabrous above and glabrous or pilose below along the veins. The petioles are 2-6 mm long. Stipules are triangular and 1-2 mm long. The pendant flowers bloom single to multiple on a 8-30 cm long rachis in racemes with 3-4 flowers. Bracts are ovate-lanceolate, and sharp at the apex. The ovary is 5-6 x 2-2.5 mm. The floral tube is funnel shaped 40-50 mm long. Sepals are lanceolate, puberulent 16-20 x 4 mm. Petals are red, linear-lanceolate 9-13 x 2-3(-5) mm. The filaments are 10-12 x 7-8 mm. The style is pilose from base of the flower to the edge of the tube.

The fruit is ellipsoid, puberulent, 11-13 x 8 mm. Seeds are tan, 1.2 x 0.7 mm wide.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Berry, P.E. (1982). "The systematics and evolution of Fuchsia sect. Fuchsia (Onagraceae)". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 69 (1): 148–149. doi:10.2307/2398789. JSTOR 2398789.
  2. ^ Walker, Barry; Cheshire, Gerard; Lloyd, Huw (2007). Peruvian Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide to the High Andes. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 29. ISBN 9781841621678.
  3. ^ "Fuchsia simplicicaulis | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Onagraceae". Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2024-04-25.


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