Biology:Buddleja hatschbachii
| Buddleja hatschbachii | |
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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. hatschbachii
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| Binomial name | |
| Buddleja hatschbachii E. M. Norman & L. B. Sm.
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Buddleja hatschbachii is a rare species found only in the wet ravines and rock slopes flanking the east side of the planalto of southern Brazil .[1] The species was first described and named by Norman and Smith in 1976.[2]
Description
Buddleja hatschbachii is a hermaphroditic subshrub 1 m high with brownish bark. The young branches are quadrangular, and covered with a whitish tomentum, bearing sessile lanceolate leaves 10 – 16 cm long by 2.5 – 4.5 cm wide, membranaceous, glabrescent above, and lanose below. The cream or white inflorescence is 10 – 20 cm long. The sessile perfect flowers occur in pairs of cymes, each with 3 – 12 flowers, borne in the axils of the reduced leaves or bracts. The tubular corolla is 15 – 20 mm long.[1]
Cultivation
The shrub is not known to be in cultivation.
References
Wikidata ☰ Q4984649 entry
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