Fuchsia procumbens R.Cunn.

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Name scientific

Fuchsia procumbens R.Cunn. in Cunningham, Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 31 (1839)

Preferred name

Fuchsia procumbens R.Cunn.

Taxonomy reference

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

R.Cunn.

Authors

R.Cunn.

Publication place

Cunningham, A. 1839: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 3: 29–34.

Year published

1839

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Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Fuchsia procumbens R.Cunn.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Fuchsia procumbens

Typification

Original material (according to the protologue): "Totera indigenis. New Zealand (Northern Island). Around the village of Matauri on the east coast opposite the Cavallos Isles, inhabiting the sands immediately above the range of the tide, where it was found in flower in March.—1834, R. Cunningham". Type: K000742311, see label data below (digital image available from https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.k000742311 and http://specimens.kew.org/herbarium/K000742311). Reported as the "type" by Allan (1961: 281) and as the "holotype" by Godley and Berry (1995: 502); corrected to the lectotype (Art. 9.10 of the ICN: Turland et al., 2018) in Mosyakin et al. 2020

Mosyakin, S.L.; de Lange, P.J.; Antonenko, S.I.; Klimovych, N.B. 2020: Types and other historical specimens of Allan and Richard Cunningham's taxa of Epilobium and Fuchsia (Onagraceae) from New Zealand in the Turczaninow Herbarium at the National Herbarium of Ukraine (KW). Ukrainian Botanical Journal 77(4): 249–269.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Myrtales

Family

Onagraceae

Genus

Fuchsia

Species

procumbens

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Fuchsia procumbens R.Cunn.

Description

Trioecious prostrate shrub, sts slightly scandent in presence of low support, or pend. over banks. Stems very slender, up to 5 dm. or more long; branchlets very slender. Lvs on subfiliform petioles up to 15-(30) mm. long; stipules minute, ovate. Lamina membr., 6-12-(15) × 7-10-(12) mm., suborbicular to broad-ovate, subcordate; margins sinuate to subserrulate, ± pubescent, as are main veins. Fls erect ± 12-20 mm. long, on peduncles up to 12 mm. long. Hypanthium dark red to purple, tubular-campanulate, glab., 7-8 mm. long. Sepals sharply reflexed, purplish at tips, narrow-lanceolate, ± 6 mm. long; petals 0; staminal filaments slender; receptive stigmas ± 2 mm. diam. Berry ovoid-oblong to obovoid, ± 20 mm. in longest diam., bright red to magenta.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Fuchsia procumbens R.Cunn.

Description

n = 11

Description

n = 11

Description

2n = 22

Description

2n = 22

Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Fuchsia procumbens R.Cunn.

Description

Subdioecious prostrate subshrub, sometimes almost scrambling or pendulous. Stems very slender < 5 mm diam., to c. 70 cm long; branchlets very slender, glabrous. Petioles almost filiform, to 15-(30) mm long, sparsely hairy. Lamina 5-15-(20) × 5-14-(20) mm, suborbicular to broad-ovate, membranous, glabrous or glabrate, sinuate to subserrulate; base subcordate; apex obtuse to rounded. Fls solitary, erect; pedicels usually c. 5 mm long at anthesis, slender. Floral tube, 6-12 mm long, tubular-campanulate. Sepals 5-8 mm long, lanceolate or narrow-lanceolate, purplish at tips, sharply reflexed. Petals 0. Filaments 2-4 mm long, slender, purple. Style 8-16 mm long, much > staminodes in ♀ fls, almost = stamens in ☿ fls; stigma capitate to 4-lobed. Berry 15-25 mm long, ovoid-oblong to obovoid, crimson to magenta.