Fuchsia cochabambana is a species of flowering plant in the family Onagraceae. It is a shrub with membranous leaves, and hanging orange-red flowers. The species is native to Bolivia, and was described in 1982.
Taxonomy The species was described by Paul Edward Berry in 1982. It is in the section Fuchsia, and forms part of a species group with Fuchsia denticulata, Fuchsia austromontana, Fuchsia harlingii, Fuchsia macrostigma, and Fuchsia magdalenae.
Distribution Fuchsia cochabambana is native to the wet tropical biome of Bolivia (Cochabamba Department and Santa Cruz Department). It grows in cloud forests.
Fuchsia cochabambana occurs sympatrically with Fuchsia sanctae-rosae.
Description Fuchsia cochabambana is a shrub that grows high.
The leaves are firmly membranous, elliptical or elliptic-lanceolate, long, and wide. The leaves are arranged into groups of three or four, and have stems.
The flowers are hanging, and tightly grouped at the ends of branches. The flower stems are long. The floral tube is narrowly funnel-shaped, long, around wide at the base, and at the rim. The sepals are lanceolate, long, and around wide. The floral tube and sepals are orange to crimson in colour. The petals are red, elliptical, long, and wide.
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