Lonicera purpurascens

Lonicera purpurascens (Decne.) Walp. in Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst.
2:449. 1843. (Syn: Lonicera
sericea Royle ex Hook. f. & Thoms.; Xylosteum
purpurascens Decne.);

Images by V.P.Bhatt (ID by D.S.Rawat)

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An erect shrub about 8 ft tall. Branchlets pilose, ultimately glabrous, pubescent when young. Leaves opposite, oblong or obovate-oblong to elliptic, 2-3 x 1-2 cm across, base narrowed or obtuse, leaf above softly pilose or glabrescent, hairy and villous beneath, on the nerves only, petiole about 0.3 cm long. Flowers axillary in peduncled pairs of about 1-2.5 cm long, bracts linear or lanceolate linear about 0.4-0.6 cm long, bracteoles distinct or connate, small quadrate subobsolete in the fruit, Calyx limb about 0.3 cm, small, truncate, glabrous. Corolla tube 0.3-0.6 mm long, base gibbous, hairy within or sometimes not, lobes purple and short. Stamens 5, as long as corolla, anthers bilobed; style sparsely pilose, exerted. Fruit usually of two confluent berries about 0.6 cm in diameter, globose black.

(Attributions- Ganeshaiah, K. N., UAS, Bangalore, India. & Kailash, B. R., UAS & ATREE, Bangalore, India.

from India Biodiversity Portal)

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Plants pic was captured in July 2014

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The flowers remind me of Fuchsia!

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Please check for Lonicera purpurascens (Caprifoliaceae) or other related species of Lonicera.

 

References:

Flora of Pakistan  FOP illustration  Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal The Plant List Ver.1.1 (Unresolved) IBIS Flora  India Biodiversity Portal