Fuchsia thymifolia
Distribution: A common shrub in the understory of Pinus, Quercus, and Abies forests from the mountains of Sinaloa and Durango, Mexico, southward to Chiapas and northern Guatemala; 1,800–3,200 m.
Habit: Gynodioecious. Erect shrub 0.5–3 m tall; branchlets ascending, vigorous, 2.5–6 dm long, 1–3 mm thick, irregular in transection, subglabrous to canescent; older branches 15–35 mm thick.
Leaves: Leaves opposite to subopposite, chartaceous, elliptic to ovate, 8–65 mm long, 6–32 mm wide, entire or occasionally serrulate, pubescent on both surfaces; base obtuse to attenuate; apex obtuse to acute; petiole puberulent, 4–24 mm long.
Flowers: Perfect flowers.Pedicels drooping, puberulent, 4–26 mm long, hypanthium obconic, 2.6–6.5 mm long, 2.5–3.8 mm wide at rim, 0.5–1 mm wide at base, pubescent outside, short oppressed strigose pubescent inside, sepals lanceolate, 2.4–4.5 mm long, 1.3–2.2 mm wide at base, reflexed, the apex acuminate to caudate, the tips separate in bud, hypanthium and sepals greenish-white to pink, petals white to pink fading to deep purple after fertilization, broadly elliptic to rotund, 2–4 mm long, 1.5–3.2 mm wide, pubescent, spreading, the apex rounded, nectary of 8 discrete swellings, each with a membranous wing extending along the vascular bundle to the stamen, 0.6–0.8 mm high, episepalous stamens exserted 0.5–1 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, filaments unequal, the episepalous ones 0.9–1.1 mm long, the epipetalous ones 0.4–0.6 mm long, anthers 1–1.3 mm long, 0.5–0.7 mm thick, style 6–11.2 mm long, the stigma exserted 2.8–4.5 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes lanceolate, spreading, 0.9–1.5 mm long. Pistillate flowers.—Similar to the perfect ones in all except the following characteristics: pedicels 4–10 mm long, hypanthium 1.2–2.2 mm long, 1.1–1.7 mm wide at rim, 0.3–0.8 mm wide at base, sepals 1.8–2.7 mm long, 0.8–1.3 mm wide at base, petals 1.1–2.8 mm long, 0.5–1.3 mm wide, nectary 0.3–0.5 mm high, style stout, 2.9–4.5 mm long, the stigma exserted 1.5–2.4 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes 1.2–1.6 mm long.
Seeds: Seeds, 12-18, 1.9–2.3 mm long, 0.9–1.1 mm thick, oblanceolate to elliptic in outline, hilum subbasal.