F. apetala - FuchsiaFinder

Description

Pedicel : pilose-hirsute, (10 to) 18-35mm long
Ovary : cylindrical, subtetragonous, 6-12mm long x 2-4mm wide, short pilose-densely hirsute, the hairs often shaggy and-2mm long
Tube color : rose to light orange-red, at times with a dark purple, nitid ring at the rim
Tube shape : subcylindrical, pilose to densely hirsute in the basal 1 to 2 mm, loosely pilose for the rest of length, inside subglabrous to villous 10 to 35 mm above the base
Tube dimensions : 4-16 cm long x 3-6mm wide and somewhat nodose at the base around the nectary, then narrowed-2-4mm wide followed by a gradual widening until 7-10mm wide at the rim, sometimes dilated 8-13mm wide just below rim
Sepal color upper : rose red and usually dull yellow-green distally
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Sepal shape : ovate, usually broader than the tube, connate at the base
Sepal tips : broadly acute, spreading to slightly recurved at anthesis
Sepal dimensions : 16-25 (to 30)mm long x 7-12 (to 16)mm wide
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Nectary : lustrous green-purple, lining the basal 5-6mm of the tube
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Filaments : green-dull pink with age, the antesepalous ones 10-18mm long, the antepetalous ones 8-15mm long
Anthers : narrowly oblong, 3.5-4.5mm long x 1.5-2mm wide, yellow

Pistil :
Style : pale green, subglabrous-densely (retrorse) villous between 10-40 mm above the base, the basal 10-15 mm usually glabrous
Stigma : green, globose-capitate, slightly four-cleft, 2-4mm long x 1.5-2.5mm wide, exserted 1-15mm beyond the anthers

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Flowers : crowded near the tip of lateral, knotty twigs, usually three to twelve per shoot
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Fruit : oblong, red, subtetragonous, 17-25mm long x 8-12mm wide, subglabrous to densely hirsute, more or less verrucose
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Habit : prostrate to hanging subshrubs in rock crevices or on the edge of banks rich in sphagnum or humus, or vine-like epiphytes on moist tree trunks. Tubers ellipsoid to cylindrical, 2 to 8 cm long and 1 to 5 cm thick, covered by copper-tan, flaking bark, often interconnected by slender stems. Stoloniferous shoots 2 to 12 dm long when epiphytic (lacking when terrestrial), 2 to 4 mm thick with freely exfoliating red-copper bark, leaves and flowers borne on short, lateral, knotty-tortuous stems with tightly packed leaf and pedicel scars, these stems rarely more than 4 cm long, 3 to 8 mm thick, dull gray, pilose to hirsute.
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Remarks : flowering is principally in the dry season, from June to September
Named : without petals ‘
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Year (of first description) : 1802
Botanist : Ruiz & Pavon
Authors : Ruiz & Pavon 1802
Original publication : Fl. Peruv. 3: 89 1802
Habitat : found on the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes from San Martín Department south to Puno Department and in Bolivia, La Paz and Cochabamba Departments in upper cloud forest and the lower reaches of the Puna, on rocks, tree trunks and sphagnum banks at elevations from (2,800 to) 3,200 to 3,850 (to 4,200) meters but most common above 3,600 meters.
Elevation : 2800-4200
Native country : Peru, Bolivia
Synonyms : F. macrantha Hook. 1846, F. hirsuta Hemsl. 1876, F. unduavensis Munz 1943
Gametic chromosome number n = 22

Leaves : alternate and usually tightly clustered at the branch tips, mostly deciduous at anthesis or present on plants flowering in shady habitats, soft membranous, petiole 25 to 50 (to 70) mm long, 2 to 3.5 mm thick, reddish, pilose, stipules filiform, 2 to 3 mm long, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : densely pilose-hirsute when young, green and subglabrous to strigose at maturity
Foliage color lower side : slightly paler and pilose, with appressed, densely villous hairs along veins
Leaf dimensions : 60-120(-150)mm long x 35-65mm wide