Biology:Buddleja hieronymi
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
Buddleja hieronymi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
Genus: | Buddleja |
Species: | B. hieronymi
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Binomial name | |
Buddleja hieronymi R.E.Fr.
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Buddleja hieronymi is a species endemic to southern Bolivia and northern Argentina first described and named by Fries in 1905.[1][2]
Description
Buddleja hieronymi is a dioecious shrub 1 – 1.5 m high with greyish rimose bark. The old naked branches often persist, while the youngest branches are tomentulose, bearing small oblong subsessile leaves 0.5 – 3 cm long by 0.4 – 1 cm wide, membranaceous or subcoriaceous, tomentulose to glabrescent above, and tomentose below. The yellowish-white inflorescence comprises one globose head 0.5 – 0.7 cm in diameter formed by 6 – 9 flowers, with occasionally a pair of smaller heads below. The tubular corolla is 2.5 – 3 mm long.[1]
Cultivation
The shrub is not known to be in cultivation.
References
Wikidata ☰ Q4984652 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddleja hieronymi.
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