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Fuchsia boliviana

Carrière (1876)

This name is accepted

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

fuchsia, lady's eardrops

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Erect bushy shrub or small tree 2–4.5(–6) m tall.

Stems: Older stems usually hollow.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite or ternate, sometimes alternate near uppermost branching nodes. Blades narrowly to broadly elliptic or ovate, 5–20(–23) cm long, 3–12(–15) cm wide. Upper surfaces puberulent to glabrate; lower surfaces puberulent, sometimes densely so. Margins glandular denticulate. Petioles 2–5(–7) cm long. Stipules small, usually deciduous.

Flowers: Flowers in terminal, pendent racemes or few branched panicles. Perfect, numerous. Pedicels slender, pendent, 5–12(–16) mm long; floral tube red, narrowly funnelform, (25–)30–60(–70) mm long. Sepals red, lanceolate, 10–20 mm long, valvate. Petals scarlet, oblong to elliptic, 8–16(–20) mm long. Stamens 8, in two series, exserted; filaments 8–15 mm long, 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 cylindrical; 10–26 mm long. Seeds small; endosperm absent.

Ploidy: 2n = 22

Habitat: Diverse mesic forest.

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Kaua'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents

Birds

Vegetative Reproduction

Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Rev. Hort. (Paris) 48: 150 (1876)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:996 (K); Staples & Herbst 2005:444 (KEY), 445 (DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Fuchsia boliviana Kokee: Halemanu Road near Jct. with Kokee Road, near Tracking Station Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 5149 Kauai BISH 1983-12-20
2 Fuchsia boliviana Kokee: Camp 10 Road; Garden at Plew's residence Preserved_Specimen To 7 feet high. Plews, J.H.R. Kauai BISH 1986-10-23
3 Fuchsia boliviana Kokee State Park, Mohihi Road to Jct. of Camp Slogett Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 5052 Kauai BISH 1983-08-30
4 Fuchsia boliviana Kokee; Halemanu Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 28184 Kauai BISH 1960-12-02
5 Fuchsia boliviana Waimea District: Kokee State Park; along Kokee-Halemanu Trail, from Camp Sloggett to Halemanu Valley Mixed mesophytic forest of Acacia koa and Metrosideros along ridgetop. Preserved_Specimen Lorence, D.H. 5804 Kauai BISH 1988-02-17
6 Fuchsia boliviana ene of Kumuwela Ridge, gulches of Kokee stream, Kaou area Metrosideros-Acacia mesic forest with Alphitonia ponderosa, Santalum pyrularium, Leptecophylla tameamea, Coprosma waimeae, Dodonaea viscosa, Wikstroemia furcata, Melicope ovata, M. barbigera, Cyanea leptostegia, Claoxylon sandwicense Preserved_Specimen tree, 3.5 m tall, multiple-trunked tan-brown, corolla scarlet, area dominated by Eucalyptus robusta, occasional Wood, K.R. 15205 Kauai BISH 2012-08-23
7 Fuchsia boliviana Kokee Park: Near summer cabins just S of park headquarters In weedy places (with Rubus, Watsonia, etc.) of relatively dry Acacia forest. Preserved_Specimen Shrub to 4 feet, flowers rose, flower clusters pendant. Carlquist, S. 1788 Kauai BISH 1965-07-31
8 Fuchsia boliviana Waimea District. Kokee, Kanaloahuluhulu meadow near lodge. cultivated. Secondary vegetation of cultivated grass and introduced trees. Preserved_Specimen Tree, 3.5 meters tall, stems brown, leaves medium green above, light green below, flowers red-pink Wood, K.R. 16509 Kauai BISH 2015-06-27
9 Fuchsia boliviana Kokee, along Kokee-Halemanu Trail Growing off the trail in Koa forest, understory, possibly naturalizing. Preserved_Specimen Shrub to 6 feet tall; flowers with 7 cm long narrow tubular red corolla (split open by birds for nectar); petals 8 in two series, anthers 8; flower cluster pendant. Hobdy, R.W. 3310 Kauai BISH 1991-06-07
10 Fuchsia boliviana Kokee Garden. Preserved_Specimen Plews, J.H.R. Kauai BISH 1990-10-26
11 Fuchsia boliviana Waimea District. Kokee, Kanaloahuluhulu meadow near lodge. cultivated. Secondary vegetation of cultivated grass and introduced trees. Preserved_Specimen Tree, 3.5 meters tall, stems brown, leaves medium green above, light green below, flowers red-pink, Wood, K.R. 16509 Kauai BISH 2015-06-27
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