Fuchsia simplicicaulis
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Onagraceae |
| Genus: | Fuchsia |
| Species: | F. simplicicaulis
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| Binomial name | |
| Fuchsia simplicicaulis Ruiz & Pav.
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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[edit]
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. 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 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 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.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Walker, Barry; Cheshire, Gerard; Lloyd, Huw (2007). Peruvian Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide to the High Andes. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 29. ISBN 9781841621678.
- ^ "Fuchsia simplicicaulis | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ^ "Onagraceae". Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
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