Fuchsia parviflora
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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. parviflora
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| Fuchsia parviflora Lindl. 1827
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Fuchsia parviflora is a species of Fuchsia found in Mexico.[1]
Description[edit]
Fuchsia parviflora is a tall shrub, reaching 1.5 to 4 meters in height, with ascending branchlets measuring 3 to 6.5 decimeters long and 0.5 to 6 millimeters thick. These branchlets, when viewed in cross-section, have a somewhat quadrangular shape and are covered in white, wavy hairs, giving them a subglabrous to loosely villous pubescent appearance. Older branches can grow up to 55 millimeters thick.
The leaves of Fuchsia parviflora are arranged oppositely, thin, and papery, ranging from 30 to 75 millimeters in length. They are oblanceolate to ovate, with strigose pubescence on both surfaces, a cuneate to attenuate base, and an acute to apiculate apex. The petioles of the leaves are pubescent and range from 8 to 45 millimeters in length.
The staminate flowers have spreading to ascending pedicels, 12 to 23 millimeters long, and a cylindric hypanthium, 8.5 to 11.2 millimeters long and 3.5 to 3.8 millimeters wide at the rim. The outside of the hypanthium is pubescent, while the lower half of the inside is densely villous pubescent. The sepals are broadly lanceolate, 2.8 to 5.3 millimeters long, and 2.1 to 2.8 millimeters wide at the base, spreading to suberect. The hypanthium, sepals, and petals can be red or white. The petals are rotund, 3.2 to 4 millimeters long and 2.5 to 3.2 millimeters wide, and puberulent. The nectary is a swollen disc, 1.8 to 2.1 millimeters high. The episepalous stamens are exserted 0.8 to 1.3 millimeters above the rim of the hypanthium, with unequal filaments (0.6 to 0.7 millimeters long for the episepalous ones and 0.9 to 1.1 millimeters long for the epipetalous ones). The anthers are 1.4 to 1.9 millimeters long and 0.5 to 0.6 millimeters thick. The style is filiform, 3 to 6 millimeters long, with an undeveloped stigma and ovary. The pistillate flowers are similar to staminate flowers, with pedicels 9 to 15 millimeters long and a hypanthium 3.2 to 5.7 millimeters long and 1.7 to 2.5 millimeters wide at the rim. The sepals are 2.7 to 4.2 millimeters long and 1.2 to 1.8 millimeters wide at the base. The petals are 1.5 to 2.1 millimeters long and 0.8 to 1.2 millimeters wide. The nectary is 0.7 to 0.9 millimeters high. The style is 5.7 to 8.2 millimeters long, with an exserted stigma 2.5 to 3.5 millimeters above the rim of the hypanthium, and lanceolate lobes spreading and measuring 0.8 to 1.3 millimeters long.
The seeds are 14-20 in number, 1.9 to 2.3 millimeters long and 1.1 to 1.3 millimeters thick, oblanceolate to elliptic in outline, with a subbasal hilum.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Plants of the World Online". Plants of the World Online. 2021-04-30. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
- ^ "Onagraceae". Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
External links[edit]
Media related to Fuchsia parviflora at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Fuchsia parviflora at Wikispecies
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