Fuchsia encliandra
Fuchsia encliandra | |
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Fuchsia encliandra female flower | |
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Fuchsia encliandra male flower | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Myrtales |
Family: | Onagraceae |
Genus: | Fuchsia |
Species: | F. encliandra
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Binomial name | |
Fuchsia encliandra | |
Synonyms | |
Encliandra parviflora Zucc. (1837) Fuchsia parviflora Zucc. (Zucc.) Hemsl. (1878)[1] |
Fuchsia encliandra is a shrub up to 2 meters (6½ feet) tall. Simple leaves with smooth edges arise opposite one another at stem nodes.[2] Flowers are either male or female, sometimes plants bearing flowers of only one sex, but other times the sexes mixed on one plant -- they are "subdioecious."[3] It occurs from central Mexico south into Nicaragua. The species grows in the mountains,[2] primarily in the seasonally dry tropical type of biome.[1]
Taxonomy
Three subspecies are recognized for the species. Subspecies encliandra is common in Mexico's mountain forests of pine, oak and arbutus from Jalisco state and San Luis Potosí south to central Oaxaca state.
Subspecies microphylloides is abundant in wet pine-oak forests and cloud forests along mountain crests in Guerrero, Michoacán and Oaxaca states.
Subspecies tetradactyla is locally abundant but in scattered communities in forests of pine, oak and arbutus from central Chiapas in southern Mexico south into northern Nicaragua.
References
- ^ a b "Plants of the World Online page for Fuchsia encliandra". kew.org. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
- ^ a b "The Genus Fuchsia". fuchsietum.com. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
- ^ Solís Montero, L. (2008), Ecología reproductiva de Fuchsia encliandra, una especie subdioica de la reserva de Manantlán, Mexico City: UNAM
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