Fuchsia furfuracea is a species of flowering plant in the family Onagraceae. It is a scrambling shrub with elliptic-ovate leaves, and pendant pink to red flowers. The fruits are berries. The species is native to Bolivia, and was described in 1925.
Taxonomy Fuchsia furfuracea was described by Ivan Murray Johnston in 1925. It is part of the section Fuchsia, and forms part of a species group with Fuchsia tincta and Fuchsia vargasiana.
Distribution Fuchsia furfuracea is native to the subtropical biome of Bolivia. It grows mostly in La Paz and Cochabamba.
Fuchsia furfuracea mostly grows in the yungas bioregion. It grows in wet sites, such as on cliff overhangs and near streams in cloud forests, at elevations of . It occurs sympatrically with Fuchsia sanctae-rosae, and may hybridise with it.
Description Fuchsia furfuracea is a scrambling shrub. It grows tall. The branchlets are green or reddish, and the older branches have smooth, purple to tan bark.
The leaves are elliptic-ovate, long, wide, and furfuraceous or covered in short hairs. The leaves are arranged oppositely, or rarely in clusters of three.The leaf stems are long.
The flowers are pendant, and . The flowers are narrowly funnel-shaped, dull pink to lavender or orange red, long, and widen from at the base, to wide at the rim. The sepals are lanceolate, long, and wide. The sepals are light red, but become white at the tips. The petals are bright pink to dark red, elliptic-ovate, long, and wide.
The fruit is an ovoid to ellipsoid berry with short hairs, which is long, and thick. The seeds are around long, and wide.
Fuchsia furfuracea resembles Fuchsia corymbiflora, but has longer flower stems, and short soft hairs inside the hypanthium.
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