Fuchsia campos-portoi
Distribution: Endemic to the open campos of the Itatiaia mountain massif, in the Serra da Mantiqueira, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais border, from 2,100 to 2,550 m.
Habit: Subshrubs to woody scandent bushes 0.3-2 (-3) m tall, often growing among rocks. Young growth subglabrous to finely canescent or pilose; older stems 1-4 cm thick, with flaky, coppery brown bark.
Leaves: Leaves mostly ternate, occasionally opposite or 4-5-whorled, firmly membranous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 12-40 mm long, 2-6(-8) mm wide, narrowly acute at the apex, acute to cuneate at the base, dark green and subglabrous above, paler and mostly glabrous below or with villous hairs along veins and margins; margin gland-serrulate, with teeth angled towards the apex, secondary veins 3-7 per side, at times inconspicuous; internodes short, mostly 10-16 mm long. Petioles (2-)3-8 mm long. Stipules 0.5-1 mm long, narrowly lanceolate or filiform, deciduous.
Flowers: Flowers solitary in upper leafaxils, pedicels slender, pendulous, (4-)8-20 mm long, ovary oblong, 4-5 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, strigose to strigillose, floral tube subrhombic, 4-6 mm long, 3.5 mm wide in the middle and ca. 2.5 mm wide at the base and summit, glabrous to strigose outside, glabrous inside, nectary 2.5-3 mm high, shallowly 8-lobed, sepals 12-20 mm long, lance-elliptic, connate for 3-5 mm at the base, free lobes 4-7 mm wide at base, spreading at anthesis. Tube and sepals red to dark pink, petals violet, broadly obovate, 9-12 mm long, 7-8 mm wide, rounded to slightly retuse at the apex, filaments red, 15-28 and 1325 mm long, anthers purple-red, elliptic-oblong, 1.5-2 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, style glabrous, exserted 5-10 mm beyond the anthers, stigma clavate, 1.2-2 mm long, 0.7-0.9 mm wide.
Fruit: Berry cylindrical-oblong, 14-16 mm long, 7-8 mm thick.
Seeds: Seeds 1.3-1.6 mm long, 0.7-1.1 mm wide.
Chromosomes: Gametic chromosome number n = 22.
Notes: Flowers mainly during the summer, from November to March.