Sepal dimensions : 17-22mm long x connate at the base for 4-5mm, free lobes 3-4mm wide
Corolla opening color : purple
Corolla mature color :
Corolla shape : obovate, rounded at the apex
Corolla silhouette :
Petal margins :
Corolla dimensions : 9-12mm long x 6-9mm wide
Nectary : smooth, 3-4mm high
Stamens :
Filaments : red-purple, 22-32 x 16–8mm long
Anthers : oblong, 2.5-3.5mm long x 1.1-1.6mm wide,
Pistil :
Style : red, glabrous-puberulent,
Stigma : clavate, 2-3mm long and 1-1.4mm wide, exserted 5-20mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
Flower : single
Flowers : solitary in upper leaf axils
Flower size :
Flower display :
Flower bud :
Fruit : subcylindrical, 10-16mm long x 5-8mm wide, shiny dark purple
Seed : oblong, 2-4mm long x 1-1.5mm wide
Habit : shrubs often scandent in trees or low brush and with decumbent branches to six meters long
Hardiness:
Height : 0,5-4 m
Light/Climate :
Optimal light conditions :
Remarks : flowering is throughout the year, but mainly from November to March, natural hybridization with F. regia ssp. regia is known to occur
Named :
Lookalikes :
Year (of first description) : 1892
Botanist : Taubert
Authors : Taubert 1892. Berry 1989
Original publication : Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 15(34): 16 1892
Habitat : occurring in open campo and in cloud forest on a few high mountains around the towns of Nova Friburgo and Santa Maria Madalena, in Rio de Janeiro state
Elevation : 1500-2100
Native country : Brazil
Synonyms : Fuchsia santos-limae, Brade 1957
Gametic chromosome number n = 22
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite or ternate, firmly membranous to subcoriaceous, petioles 3 to 6 mm long, purplish and sparsely puberulent, internodes short, 3 to 12 mm long, stipules broadly triangular, 0.6 to 1.2 mm long and wide, thick at the base, purplish, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : dark sublustrous green and glabrous
Foliage color lower side : paler and subglabrous , or sometimes pilose at the base of the midvein
Leaf dimensions : 15-30(-40)mm long x 8-15mm wide
Leaf shape : elliptic or lanceolate
Leaf margin : remotely gland-denticulate
Leaf tip : acute
Leaf base : acute
Pubescence :
Veins : 4 to 5 (to 6) secondary veins per side
Stems :
Branches : branchlets subdivaricate and generally densely packed, minutely puberulent, dull purplish, readily exfoliating
