Buddleja diffusa

Buddleja diffusa is a species endemic to central Peru and northern Argentina, growing on dry hillsides above rivers and creeks at altitudes of 10001900 m; it was first described and named by Ruiz and Pavon in 1798.[1][2]

Buddleja diffusa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Buddleja
Species:
B. diffusa
Binomial name
Buddleja diffusa
Synonyms
  • Buddleja coroincense Rusby

Description

Buddleja diffusa is a dioecious, scrambling, vine-like shrub 13.5 m high, with yellowish bark. The young branches are quadrangular, the younger growth covered with a white to buff tomentum. The sessile, membranaceous ovate or elliptic leaves 314 cm long by 28 cm wide, glabrescent above, tomentose below. The yellow inflorescences are 1530 cm long, with one or two orders of branches; the flowers borne in capitate cymules, each 0.61 cm diameter, with 915 flowers; the corolla tubes are 33.5 mm long.[2]

Cultivation

The shrub is not known to be in cultivation.

References

  1. Ruiz, H & Pavon, J. A. (1798). Prodr. 1: 535 t.80a. 1798.
  2. Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. Flora Neotropica 81. New York Botanical Garden, US
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