Fuchsia glazioviana
Distribution: In open campo and in cloud forest on a few high mountains around the towns of Nova Friburgo and Santa Maria Madalena, in Rio de Janeiro state, from 1,500 to 2,100 m.
Habit: Shrubs 0.5-4 m high, often scandent in trees or low brush and with decumbent branches to 6 m long. Branchlets subdivaricate and generally densely packed, minutely puberulent, dull purplish, readily exfoliating.
Leaves: Leaves opposite or ternate, firmly membranous to subcoriaceous, elliptic or lanceolate, 15-30(-40) mm long, 8-15 mm wide, acute at the base and apex, dark sublustrous green and glabrous above, paler and subglabrous below or sometimes pilose at the base of the midvein; margins remotely gland-denticulate, with 4-5(-6) secondary veins per side. Petioles 3-6 mm long, purplish and sparsely puberulent; internodes short, 3-12 mm long. Stipules broadly triangular, 0.6-1.2 mm long and wide, thick at the base, purplish, deciduous.
Flowers: Flowers solitary in the upper leafaxils, pedicels slender, sparsely puberulent, pendulous, 12-26 mm long, ovary oblong, 4-5 mm long, 22.5 mm wide, floral tube cylindrical, 5-7 mm long, 2.5-4 mm wide, subglabrous outside, glabrous inside, nectary smooth, 3-4 mm high, sepals 17-22 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, connate at the base for 4-5 mm, free lobes 3-4 mm wide, acuminate at the apex, spreading at anthesis. Tube and sepals red or pink, petals purple, obovate, 912 mm long, 6-9 mm wide, rounded at the apex, filaments red-purple, 22-32 and 16-28 mm long, anthers oblong, 2.5-3.5 mm long, 1.1-1.6 mm wide, style red, glabrous to puberulent, stigma clavate, 2-3 mm long and 1-1.4 mm wide, exserted 5-20 mm beyond the anthers.
Fruit: Berry shiny dark purple, subcylindrical, 10-16 mm long, 5-8 mm wide.
Seeds: seeds oblong, 2-4 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide.
Chromosomes: Gametic chromosome number n = 22.
Notes: Flowers throughout the year, mainly from November to March.