“…The sister group of Circaea has been suggested to be Fuchsia by recent molecular studies of Onagraceae (Bult and Zimmer, 1993;Conti et al, 1993;Ford and Gottlieb, 2007;Levin et al, 2003Levin et al, , 2004Sytsma et al, 2004). In contrast to the herbaceous, circumboreal Circaea, the 107 species of Fuchsia are shrubs, trees, lianas, or epiphytes distributed primarily in Central and South America, especially in the tropical Andes, with two species in New Zealand and one on the Pacific island of Tahiti (Berry et al, 2004;Wagner et al, 2007).…”