Deppea splendens
species of plant
Deppea splendens, commonly known as the golden fuchsia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae endemic to Chiapas, Mexico. It is extinct in the wild. Despite its common name, it is not related to the true Fuchsia genus.
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Deppea splendens is an evergreen, 5–8 m (16–26 ft) tall shrub or tree with glabrous twigs. The petiolate, stipulate, elliptic to ovate-elliptic leaves with an acuminate apex are 4.5–15 cm long, and 0.8-6 cm wide. The petiole is 0.8–3.8 cm long. Leaves are arranged in whorls of three, or occasionally opposite.
Generative characteristics
The terminal, pendulous, brightly coloured inflorescences bear 16–25 pendulous, tubular, tetramerous, ornithophilous 5–6 cm long flowers with a red calyx and yellow-orange petals. The tricolporate pollen grains are 21.9–25.7 μm big. The compressed, ellipsoid, 6–8 mm long, and 5–7 mm wide loculicidal capsule fruit bears dark brown, 0.6–1 mm long seeds.
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