Fuchsia hatschbachii
{{Short description|Species of plant in the genus Fuchsia}}
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Fuchsia hatschbachii, called Hatschbach's fuchsia, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Fuchsia, endemic to the state of Paraná in Brazil.{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:277266-2 |title=Fuchsia hatschbachii P.E.Berry |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=26 February 2021 }} It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.{{cite web |title=Fuchsia hatschbachii Hatschbach's fuchsia |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/43050/Fuchsia-hatschbachii/Details |publisher=The Royal Horticultural Society |access-date=26 February 2021 |quote= }} The species is named after Gert Hatschbach, Director of the Museu Botânico de Curitiba who collects and studies flora of Paraná.{{cite journal | last=Berry | first=Paul E. | title=A Systematic Revision of Fuchsia Sect. Quelusia (Onagraceae) | journal=Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden | volume=76 | issue=2 | date=1989 | doi=10.2307/2399499 | page=532}}
Description
Fuchsia hatschbachii are erect to scandent shrubs, ranging from 1-3 meters tall, or up to 5 meters when climbing on trees. Leaves are narrowly lance-ovate, 3.0-7.5(-11.0) x 0.8-2.5(-3.0) cm, acuminate at the tip and rounded at the base, dark green above and pale below, with small trichomes 0.8-1 mm in length at the bottom of the lower midvein on some plants. The margin is slightly gland-denticulate. Petioles are purple, (2-)3-6(-7) x 1-2 mm. Stipules are semideciduous, narrowly triangular, 1-1.7 x 0.6-1.2 mm. Plants bloom from November to March.{{cite web | title=Onagraceae | website=Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution | url=https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/onagraceae/speciesdescr.cfm?myID=3650 | access-date=2024-04-18}} with solitary flowers on 1-203 cm long pedicels. The ovary is cylindrical, 5-9 x 2.5-3 mm, and the hypanthium is cylindrical, red, and 10-15 x 3-5 mm. Sepals are 18-26 mm long, and petals are violet, broadly obovate, 12-17 x 8-12 mm. Fruit are purple, subcylindrical quadrangled, 13-18 x 7-10 mm.
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Distribution
Fuchsia hatschbachii is found in low forests located on sandstone or limestone outcrops, within the Brazilian highlands north and west of Curitiba in Paraná, Brazil at elevations between 950 and 1,150 meters.
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External links
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