Buddleja chenopodiifolia

Buddleja chenopodiifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Buddlejaceae
Genus: Buddleja
Species: B. chenopodiifolia
Binomial name
Buddleja chenopodiifolia
Kraenzl.

Buddleja chenopodiifolia is a species endemic to the dry rocky or clay hillsides of southern Peru at altitudes of 22003100 m; it was first described and named by Kraenzlin in 1913.[1] [2]

Description

B. chenopodiifolia is a dioecious shrub 12 m high, with dark brown fissured bark. The branches are subquadrangular and covered with a dense white tomentum. The membranaceous ovate leaves have 0.51 cm petioles, and are 48 cm long by 1.33.5 cm wide, glabrescent above but with white tomentum below. The yellowish-white leafy-bracted inflorescences are 1020 cm long, comprising 614 pairs of globose heads < 1 cm in diameter, each head with 620 flowers; the corolla tubes are 1.72.5 mm long.[2]

Cultivation

The shrub is not known to be in cultivation.

References

  1. Kraenzlin, F. W. L. (1913). Bot. Jahrb Syst. 50: Beibl. 111, 35. 1913
  2. 1 2 Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. Flora Neotropica 81. New York Botanical Garden, USA
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