Buddleja suaveolens

Buddleja suaveolens is endemic to central Chile, growing mostly in rocky areas along rivers at elevations of 500 2,900 m. The species was first named and described by Kunth and Bouché in 1845.[1][2]

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

Description

Buddleja suaveolens is a dioecious shrub 1 4 m tall, with grey fissured bark and persistent dead naked branches. The young branches are yellow, terete and tomentulose, bearing small sessile, elliptic to oblong subcoriaceous leaves, 0.5 3 cm long by 0.2 1 cm wide, glabrescent above but tomentose below. The yellowish orange leafy inflorescences comprise one terminal and 2 7 pairs of heads in the axils of the upper leaves, each head approximately 1 cm in diameter, with 6 20 flowers; the corollas 5 mm long.[2]

The species is considered to be closely related to B. mendozensis.[2]

Cultivation

The species is not known to be in cultivation.

References

  1. Kunth & Bouche (1845). Ann. Sci. Nat. 5: 358. 1846
  2. Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. Flora Neotropica 81. New York Botanical Garden, USA
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