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Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.

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Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 728 (1867)
Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1867
728
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species
Fuchsia ×colensoi

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×colensoi

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Fuchsia excorticata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) L.f. × Fuchsia perscandens Cockayne & Allan

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Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.

2n = 22
n = 11

Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.

Gynodioecious, deciduous shrub or small tree, ± erect and bushy or lianoid; trunk to c. 20 cm thick when of tree form; bark ± peeling. Branchlets hairy when young. Petioles slender, often filiform, 0.5-5.5 cm long, ± hairy, particularly on upper side. Lamina (2)-3-8-(10) × (1)-2-4 cm, usually ovate to broad-ovate or ovate-oblong, less commonly suborbicular, elliptic or lanceolate-ovate, green above, glaucous or silvery beneath, often suffused with red or purple; midrib and sometimes main lateral veins hairy beneath; base usually broad-cuneate, truncate or rounded, occasionally subcordate; apex rounded to obtuse and mucronate, or acute to acuminate. Fls solitary or few in clusters, on young shoots or ± cauliflorous, usually pendulous; pedicels 7-15 mm long, filiform. Floral tube 8-20 mm long, ± purple. Sepals 6-14 mm long, narrow-triangular, green or purplish, eventually ± reflexed. Petals 1-5 mm long, dark purple, elliptic. Stamens of ☿ fls well-exserted; filaments 6-10 mm long, ± purple. Style 1.7-3.5 cm long, much > stamens; stigma capitate. Berry c. 10 mm long, ellipsoid-oblong, dark purple or almost black.

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Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.
Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.
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Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.
Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.
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Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.
Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.
Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.

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Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Fuchsia ×colensoi Hook.f.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

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8f0b2b5f-0505-4f07-b287-dc21152a07ad
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
27 June 2022
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