Fuchsia simplicicaulis
Distribution: Central Peru. Rare in cloud forests in Depts. Huanuco, Junin, and Pasco, eastern slopes of the Andes; 2,200-2,500 m.
Habit: Scandent shrubs 2-5 m tall, sparsely verticillately branched, with ultimate branches pendulous. Branchlets subterete, puberulent, older stems with light red, exfoliating bark.
Leaves: Leaves ternate or quaternate, membranous, linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to narrowly obtuse or truncate at the base, acuminate at the apex, 8-15 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, glabrous above, glabrous to scattered pilose below or along the margin; secondary veins 10-18 on either side of the midvein; margin subentire. Petioles glabrous to puberulent, 2-6 mm long. Stipules triangular, 1-2 mm long, ca. 0.9 mm wide, subpersistent.
Flowers: Flowers in simple to multiple, pendant, involucrate racemes, with flowers 3-4 per whorl and internodes 1.5-6 cm long, rachis 8-30 cm long, bracts thinly membranous, sessile, concave, ovate-lanceolate, broadly rounded and clasping the stem at the base, acuminate at the apex, 1-5 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm wide, pedicels puberulent, 5-10 mm long, ovary oblong-ellipsoid, puberulent or velutinous, 5-6 mm long, 2-2.5 mm thick, floral tube narrowly funnelform, 40-50 mm long, bulbous and 3-4 mm wide at the base, narrowed to 1.5-2 mm wide above the ovary, then gradually widened above until 5-7 mm wide at the rim, finely pilose outside, pilose inside, sepals lanceolate, puberulent on both sides, acuminate, 16-20 mm long, ca. 4 mm wide. Tube and sepals light reddish pink, petals red, linear-lanceolate to elliptic, acute to narrowly acuminate at the apex, 9-13 mm long, 2-3(-5) mm wide. Nectary apparently unlobed, ca. 1.5 mm high, filaments 10-12 mm and 7-8 mm long, anthers oblong, 3-4 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, style pilose from base up to the rim of the tube, stigma globose, 4-parted at the apex, 2.5-3.5 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide.
Fruit: Berry ellipsoid, puberulent, 11-13 mm long, ca. 8 mm thick.
Seeds: Seeds tan, ca. 1.2 mm long, ca. 0.7 mm wide.