Buddleja oblonga

Buddleja oblonga is a species endemic to the Serra do Caparaó and south as far as Paraná in Brazil, where it grows in fields and damp thickets near streams at altitudes of 1,000 2,200 m.[1] The species was first named and described by Bentham in 1846.[2]

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

Description

Buddleja oblonga is a dioecious shrub with dark-brown longitudinally fissured bark. The young branches are quadrangular, bearing sessile oblong to elliptic membranaceous leaves 6 15 cm long by 0.8 3 cm wide, glabrous above and glabrescent below. The white inflorescences are 4 10 cm long, comprising 4 8 heads in the axils of the reduced terminal leaves, the heads 0.7 1.5 cm in diameter, with 5 9 flowers; the corollas 4.5 5.5 mm long.[1]

References

  1. Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. Flora Neotropica 81. New York Botanical Garden, USA
  2. Bentham, G. (1845). DC., Prodromus 10: 442. 1846.


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