Biology:Buddleja tucamensis
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Genus: | Buddleja |
| Species: | B. tucamensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Buddleja tucamensis Griseb.
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Buddleja tucamensis is endemic to the La Paz Department of Bolivia and to the Catamarca Province of Argentina , growing on rocky hillsides, along streams and roads from sea level to 3,300 m. The species was first named and described by Grisebach in 1874 [1][2]
Description
Buddleja tucamensis is a dioecious shrub 0.5 – 5 m in height, with grey fissured bark. The young branches are terete and covered with tomentum. The lower leaves have petioles < 2 cm long, and blades oblong to ovate, 8 – 15 cm long by 2.5 – 5.5 cm wide, subcoriaceous, glabrescent above, tomentose or lanose below, the margin serrate. The upper leaves have shorter petioles, and the blades lanceolate to elliptic 3 – 11 cm long by 1 – 4 cm wide, the margin entire. The yellowish-orange leafy inflorescences comprise hemispheric heads in the axils of the terminal leaves, 5 – 20 heads per branch, each head 1 – 1.5 cm in diameter with 5 – 20 flowers; the corollas 3.5 – 5 mm long. Ploidy: 2n = 38.[2]
Cultivation
Buddleja tucamensis is not known to be in cultivation beyond Argentina.
References
Wikidata ☰ Q4984731 entry
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