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Fuchsia

Plum. ex L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Myrtales Family: Onagraceae Genus: Fuchsia

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Erect to scandent shrubs, lianas, or small to medium-sized trees.

Stems: Stems sometimes swollen or with tuberous underground parts.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, opposite, or whorled. Petiolate. Stipules small, usually deciduous.

Flowers: Flowers in axillary or in racemose, paniculate, or involucrate inflorescences. Flowers bisexual (perfect) or unisexual (and the plants gynodioecious or dioecious), actinomorphic, 4-merous. Calyx of (2–)4–5(–7) sepals; sepals usually petaloid, valvate. Petals convolute or spreading at anthesis, sometimes absent. Stamens 8, in two series; anthers basifixed, dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Pollen shed singly. Ovary inferior, as many cells and carpels as sepals; ovules anatropous; style 1; stigma capitate, globose, or clavate, 4-lobed to subentire.

Fruit: Berries. Seeds 6 to numerous per fruit; small; obovoid to ellipsoid or subglobose; endosperm absent.

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Uses and Culture

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 1191 (1753)

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