© Euro-Fuchsia (2011) Species The systematic place of the fuchsias Fuchsias place in the systematic order of the fern and blossom plants as follows: Divisio (Division): Spermatophyta Subdivisio (Subdivision): Magnoliophytina Classis (Class): Magnoliopsida Subclassis (Subclass): Rosidae Ordo (Order): Myrtales Familia (Family): Onagraceae Genus (Genus): Fuchsia Sectio (Section): for example Quelusia Species (Species): for example Fuchsia alpestris Subspecies (Subspecies): for example Fuchsia regia ssp. reitzii Varietas (Variety): for example Fuchsia boliviana var. luxurians The fuchsia is closely related with the Epilobium, the ham cabbage (Oenothera biennis), the atlas flower (Godetia) and the Clarkia; not related is it with the similarly looking cape fuchsia (Phygelius aequalis). Sections Based on their relationship you can classifiy the more than 100 species of the genus fuchsia in 12 sections, some of them containing only one species, one (the section fuchsia) more than 60 species.                              ---  still under construction  --- Sources: The dates at the following pages are based on the following sources: Paul E. Berry, Sections and Species of Fuchsia. October 2005, in: Journal of Fuchsia Research, Vol. 4, No. 1, May 2006, Hrsg.: Fuchsia Research International, S. 34 ff. Paul E. Berry e.a., Phylogenetic Relationships And Biogeography of Fuchsia (Onagraceae) Based on Noncoding Nuclear And Chloroplast DNA Data, American Journal of Botany, April 2004, S. 601 ff. Mia Goedman-Frankema, Botanische Fuchsia's, Zutphen 1992 (Terra Verlag) Helmut Regnat, Die Gattung Fuchsia, CD 2000 (selfpublished) Elisabeth und Hans Schnedl, Wildformen der Fuchsie, 1997 (selfpublished) Arthur J. Tickner, The Genus Fuchsia, CD published by Fuchsia Research International 2004