Fuchsia campos-portoi

Fuchsia campos-portoi is a plant of the genus Fuchsia native to Brazil.

Description
Fuchsia campos-portoi are small shrubs around 0.3-2 meters tall. Juvenile growth is mostly smooth but slightly hairy and mature stems have flaky, a copper brown bark, that is 1-4 centimeters thick.

The leaves are mostly arranged in threes and is narrowly lanceolate, 12-40 x 2-6(-8) mm, with a pointed tip. The upper surface is dark green and mostly smooth, while the lower surface is lighter mostly hairless or with fine hairs along the veins and edges. The leaf margin has glandular serrations that point towards the tip.

The flowers are solitary growing from the upper leaf axils with a pendulous pedicels (4-)8-20 mm long. Plants bloom in summer around November to March in habitat. The ovary is oblong, 4-5 x 2 mm, covered in fine hairs. The floral tube isred to dark, 4-6 mm x 3.5 mm with a smooth exterior and a slightly hairy interior. The nectary is shallowly 8-lobed, and the sepals are pink, elliptic 12-20 mm long. Petals are violet.

The berries are oblong, 14-16 x 7-8 mm thick and purple, and the seeds are 1.3-1.6 x 0.7-1.1 mm wide.

Distribution
Fuchsia campos-portoi is native to the campos rupestres habitat of the Itatiaia mountain massif, located on the border of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at elevations ranging from 2,100 to 2,550 meters found growing among rocks. Fuchsia campos-portoi is found in shrubby patches or open, rocky sites, often experiencing winter frosts. It typically grows alongside Fuchsia regia subsp. regia, where several intermediate hybrids between the two species have been discovered.