Fuchsia denticulata
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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. denticulata
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| Fuchsia denticulata Ruiz & Pav.
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Fuchsia denticulata is a shrub in the family Onagraceae, native to Bolivia and Peru.[1][2]
Description[edit]
Fuchsia denticulata is an erect to scandent shrub, reaching 1.5-4 m in height or climbing up to 10 m in trees. It has green to wine red branchlets and 3-5-verticillate leaves that are mostly ternate or quatemate. The leaves are firm and membranous, (narrowly) elliptic to oblanceolate, with acute to narrowly cuneate bases and acute to subacuminate apices. They are 4-17 cm long and 1.5-6.5 cm wide, dark green and glabrous above, and pale green and subglabrous to strigose mostly along veins and margins below. The flowers are few to numerous, axillary, and pendant, usually grouped toward branch tips. The flowers have stout, smooth pedicels, and the ovary is narrowly oblong and glabrous. The floral tube is subcylindric, firm, and generally green, with lanceolate, acuminate sepals. The tube is waxy light pink, lavender, or light red, and the sepals are pink to light red. The petals are orange to scarlet, usually drying purple streaked. The nectary is green, unlobed, and the filaments are pink to light red. The berry is ellipsoid, nitid green to red-purple, and smooth-surfaced, with tan seeds.[3]
Distribution[edit]
Fuchsia denticulata is found in Peru and Bolivia, primarily in three main areas: on the Pacific slopes of the Cordillera Occidental in Peru (Lima and Ancash) at elevations of 2,800-3,500 m, near springs and in moist canyons; on the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes from Huanuco to Cuzco, at elevations of 2,500-3,400 m, in cloud forest and moist upland shrub vegetation; and on the northeastern slopes of the Bolivian Andes in La Paz and Cochabamba, at elevations of 2,200-3,100 m, in cloud forest.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Berry, P.E. (1982). "The systematics and evolution of Fuchsia sect. Fuchsia (Onagraceae)". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 69 (1): 137–139.
- ^ Walker, Barry; Cheshire, Gerard; Lloyd, Huw (2007). Peruvian Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide to the High Andes. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 29. ISBN 9781841621678.
- ^ a b "Onagraceae". Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
External links[edit]
Media related to Fuchsia denticulata at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Fuchsia denticulata at Wikispecies
