Fuchsia putumayensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Onagraceae. It is a shrub or subshrub with firmly membranous leaves, orange-red flowers, and red-purple berries. The species is native to Colombia and Ecuador, and was described in 1943.
Taxonomy The species was described by Philip A. Munz in 1943.
Fuchsia putumayensis is part of the section Fuchsia. It forms part of a species group with Fuchsia lehmannii, Fuchsia andrei, Fuchsia cuatrecasaii, and Fuchsia abrupta.
Distribution Fuchsia putumayensis is native to the wet tropical biome of Colombia and Ecuador. It grows in the cloud forests of the Colombian Cordillera Occidental, and on the eastern Cordillera Central. The species is present at elevations of .
Fuchsia putumayensis occurs sympatrically with Fuchsia cuatrecasaii and Fuchsia macrostigma.
Description Fuchsia putumayensis is a shrub or subshrub. It grows high. The young branchlets are cylindrical, green to dull purple, and covered in minute hairs. The older stems are pale tan or grey, with finely fissured bark.
The leaves are arranged oppositely, firmly membranous, elliptical, long, and wide. The leaf stems are long.
The inflorescences are racemes with numerous flowers. The flower stems are long. The flowers are orange-red. The floral tube is a narrow funnel that measures long, wide at the base, and wide at the rim. The sepals are tapering, , and wide. The petals are elliptical-oblong, , and wide.
The fruit is a red-purple, oblong-ellipsoid berry, measuring long, and wide. The seeds are tan coloured, long, and wide.
Hybrids Fuchsia putumayensis hybridises with Fuchsia nigricans. The two species occur sympatrically.
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