Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Myrtales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Onagraceae
Genus
Fuchsia L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Fuchsia procumbens R.Cunn. in Cunningham, Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 31 (1839)
Synonymy:
Original material (according to the protologue): "Totera indigenis. New Zealand (Northern Island). Around the village of Matauri on the east coast opposite the Cavallos Isles, inhabiting the sands immediately above the range of the tide, where it was found in flower in March.—1834, R. Cunningham". Type: K000742311, see label data below (digital image available from https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.k000742311 and http://specimens.kew.org/herbarium/K000742311). Reported as the "type" by Allan (1961: 281) and as the "holotype" by Godley and Berry (1995: 502); corrected to the lectotype (Art. 9.10 of the ICN: Turland et al., 2018) in Mosyakin et al. 2020
Vernacular Name(s):
Climbing fuchsia; Creeping fuchsia; Trailing fuchsia
 Description

Subdioecious prostrate subshrub, sometimes almost scrambling or pendulous. Stems very slender < 5 mm diam., to c. 70 cm long; branchlets very slender, glabrous. Petioles almost filiform, to 15–(30) mm long, sparsely hairy. Lamina 5–15–(20) × 5–14–(20) mm, suborbicular to broad-ovate, membranous, glabrous or glabrate, sinuate to subserrulate; base subcordate; apex obtuse to rounded. Fls solitary, erect; pedicels usually c. 5 mm long at anthesis, slender. Floral tube, 6–12 mm long, tubular-campanulate. Sepals 5–8 mm long, lanceolate or narrow-lanceolate, purplish at tips, sharply reflexed. Petals 0. Filaments 2–4 mm long, slender, purple. Style 8–16 mm long, much > staminodes in ♀ fls, almost = stamens in ☿ fls; stigma capitate to 4-lobed. Berry 15–25 mm long, ovoid-oblong to obovoid, crimson to magenta.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Oct.–Feb.

 Bibliography
Cunningham, A. 1839: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 3: 29–34.
de Lange, P.J.; Gosden, J.; Courtney, S.P.; Fergus, A.J.; Barkla, J.W.; Beadel, S.M.; Champion, P.D., Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Makan, T.; Michel, P. 2024: Conservation status of vascular plants in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2023. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 43. [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Naturally Uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Naturally Uncommon]
Mosyakin, S.L.; de Lange, P.J.; Antonenko, S.I.; Klimovych, N.B. 2020: Types and other historical specimens of Allan and Richard Cunningham's taxa of Epilobium and Fuchsia (Onagraceae) from New Zealand in the Turczaninow Herbarium at the National Herbarium of Ukraine (KW). Ukrainian Botanical Journal 77(4): 249–269.