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Fuchsia L.

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Fuchsia L., Sp. Pl. 1191 (1753)
Fuchsia L.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
1191
ICN
Fuchsia L.
genus
Fuchsia

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Fuchsia

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Fuchsia L.

Fls us. perfect, axillary, solitary or clustered, us. pend., regular, epig., with a bell-shaped or tubular hypanthium ("calyx-tube"). Sepals and petals us. 4; stamens us. 8, exserted. Ovary 4-celled, stigma 4-lobed to capitate; berry with us. ∞ seeds. Erect or spreading shrubs or small trees, sts lianoid. Lvs simple opp. or alt. -the stipules caducous. Besides the N.Z. spp. there is one in Tahiti and some 100 ranging from Mexico to Fuegia.

Fuchsia L.

n = 11 bivalents, 2 univalents + 10 bivalents
n = 11 bivalents

Fuchsia L.

Prostrate shrubs to small trees, sometimes lianoid, sometimes deciduous. Lvs simple, opposite, alternate or whorled, entire or toothed. Fls solitary in lf axils or clustered in racemes or panicles, occasionally cauliflorous, actinomorphic, mostly pendulous, usually ☿, sometimes unisexual. Floral tube campanulate to tubular, often greatly prolonged beyond ovary, usually coloured, deciduous at fruiting. Sepals 4, usually coloured. Petals 4, usually pink or mauve to crimson or purple, sometimes minute or 0. Stamens 8, in 2 whorls, generally exserted, the 4 episepalous ones > 4 epipetalous ones; anthers dorsifixed. Style usually long-exserted; stigma capitate to 4-lobed. Fr. a soft, 4-celled berry. Seeds numerous, very small.

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Fuchsia L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Fuchsia L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Fuchsia L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Fuchsia L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Fuchsia L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Fuchsia L.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Fuchsia L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Fuchsia L.
Peru

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
14 February 2014
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