Fuchsia magellanica Lam. belongs to the Onagraceae family. Flora of the World contains 1 recorded occurrence of this taxon, distributed across 1 country.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Myrtales
Family
Onagraceae
Genus
Fuchsia
Specific Epithet
magellanica
Authorship
Lam.
Source
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Moderate
ED 10.1
Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.8
Global rank
#55,049 of 335,497
Top 17%
Extinction probability
9%
Location
Chile, O'Higgins, Cardenal Caro
-34.487778, -72.006944
Location Remarks
Comuna Pichilemu, Cáhuil; steep rocky roadbank above a brackish estuary. 2 m elev.
Collectors
W. Douglas Stevens, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Olga Martha Montiel
Notes
Shrub 1 m tall, flowers pendent, outer perianth red, inner blue-purple, filaments red.