Fuchsia bracelinae

The Fuchsia bracelinae plant is a subshrub that grows 10-60 cm tall sometimes as scandent shrubs reaching 2 m high. The branchlets are reddish-purple covered with whitish hairs and mature branches have flaking bark. Leaves are , narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 20-50 x 7-17 mm, narrowly acute apex and rounded base. They are green and slightly hairy above, paler and usually purple-flushed below, with densely hairs on the veins and margins. Flowers are solitary growing from the upper leaf axils, with slender, hairy, pendulous pedicels 12-20 mm long. The ovary is oblong, hairy, 4.5-8 x 2-3 mm wide, and the floral tube is cylindrical 3.5-7 x 2-4 mm wide. Sepals are narrowly lanceolate. Petals are deep violet, broadly obovate, 10-15 mm x 6.5-9 mm. Stamens have reddish-purple filaments, 24-30 x 17-21 mm long. The style is light red. Young fruits are oblong and purple.[2]

Fuchsia bracelinae was first described in the Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences in 1943 by Philip A. Munz.[3] The plant was named after botanist Nina Floy Bracelin[4]

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