Fuchsia cylindracea
Distribution: Scattered shrubs in canyons with forests of Pinus, Quercus, and Arbutus and evergreen cloud forests from the Sierra Madre Occidental of southwestern Durango through the western part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt of Jalisco, Michoacán, and México to the Sierra Madre of Guerrero, 1,500–2,500 m.
Habit: Dioecious. Erect shrub, 1.5–4 m tall; branchlets ascending, vigorous, 3–6.5 dm long, 0.5-6 mm thick, somewhat quadrangular in transection, subglabrous to loosely villous pubescent with white wavy hairs; older branches 15–55 mm thick.
Leaves: Leaves opposite, chartaceous, oblanceolate to ovate, 30–75 mm long, strigose pubescent on both surfaces; base cun.eate to attenuate; apex acute to apiculate; petiole pubescent, 8–45 mm long.
Flowers: Staminate flowers, pedicels spreading to ascending, pubescent, 12–23 mm long, hypanthium cylindric, 8.5–11.2 mm long, 3.5–3.8 mm wide at rim, 3.2–3.5 mm wide at base, pubescent outside, densely villous pubescent on the inside lower half , sepals broadly lanceolate, 2.8–5.3 mm long, 2.1–2.8 mm wide at base, spreading to suberect, the apex acute to acuminate, the tips connivent in bud, hypanthium red, sepals red or white, petals red or white, rotund, 3.2–4 mm long, 2.5–3.2 mm wide, puberulent, spreading to erect, apex rounded, nectary a swollen disc, 1.8–2.1 mm high, episepalous stamens exserted 0.8–1.3 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, filaments unequal, the episepalous ones 0.6–0.7 mm long, the epipetalous ones 0.9–1.1 mm long, anthers 1.4–1.9 mm long, 0.5–0.6 mm thick, style filiform, 3–6 mm long, stigma usually undeveloped , ovary undeveloped. Pistillate flowers.–Similar to the staminate ones in all except the following characteristics: pedicels 9–15 mm long, hypanthium 3.2–5.7 mm long, 1.7–2.5 mm wide at rim, 1.2–2.3 mm wide at base, sepals 2.7–4.2 mm long, 1.2–1.8 mm wide at base, petals 1.5–2.1 mm long, 0.8–1.2 mm wide, nectary 0.7–0.9 mm high, style 5.7–8.2 mm long, the stigma exserted 2.5–3.5 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes lanceolate, spreading, 0.8–1.3 mm long,
Seeds: Seeds 14-20, 1.9–2.3 mm long, 1.1–1.3 mm thick., oblanceolate to elliptic in outline, hilum subbasal.
Chromosomes: Gametic chromosome number, n = 11.
Notes: Description from Breedlove 1969, name from Berry 1988