Fuchsia campos-portoi is a plant of the genus Fuchsia native to Brazil.[1]
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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. campos-portoi
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| Fuchsia campos-portoi Pilger & Schulze 1935
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Description edit
Fuchsia campos-portoi are small shrubs or woody bushes, typically 0.3-2 meters tall, often found growing among rocks. Their young growth is mostly smooth but can be slightly hairy, while older stems have flaky, coppery brown bark, reaching 1-4 centimeters in thickness.
The leaves are mostly arranged in threes, occasionally opposite or in whorls of 4-5, and are firm and membranous. They are narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 12-40 mm long, 2-6(-8) mm wide, with a narrow pointed tip and a base that ranges from pointed to wedge-shaped. The upper surface is dark green and mostly smooth, while the lower surface is paler and mostly hairless or with fine hairs along the veins and edges. The leaf margin has glandular teeth that point towards the tip, with 3-7 secondary veins per side.
The flowers are solitary, located in the upper leaf axils, with slender, pendulous pedicels (4-)8-20 mm long. Blooms occur during the summer, from November to March. The ovary is oblong, 4-5 mm long, and about 2 mm wide, covered in fine hairs. The floral tube is subrhombic, 4-6 mm long and 3.5 mm wide in the middle, tapering to about 2.5 mm wide at the base and summit, with a smooth exterior and a slightly hairy interior. The nectary is shallowly 8-lobed, and the sepals are lance-elliptic, 12-20 mm long, connate for 3-5 mm at the base, and spreading at flowering, with red to dark pink tubes and sepals, and violet petals.
The berries are cylindrical-oblong, 14-16 mm long and 7-8 mm thick, and the seeds are 1.3-1.6 mm long and 0.7-1.1 mm wide.[2]
Distribution edit
Fuchsia campos-portoi is native to the open campos of the Itatiaia mountain massif, located on the border of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, Brazil, at elevations ranging from 2,100 to 2,550 meters. Fuchsia campos-portoi is found in shrubby patches or open, rocky sites, often experiencing winter frosts. It typically grows alongside Fuchsia regia subsp. regia, where several intermediate hybrids between the two species have been discovered.[3]
References edit
- ^ "Fuchsia campos-portoi". Tropicos. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
- ^ "Onagraceae". Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
- ^ Berry, Paul E. (1989). "A Systematic Revision of Fuchsia Sect. Quelusia (Onagraceae)". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 76 (2): 532. doi:10.2307/2399499.
External links edit
Media related to Fuchsia campos-portoi at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Fuchsia campos-portoi at Wikispecies
