Buddleja longifolia

Buddleja longifolia is a species now restricted to remnants of montane forest in Loja, Ecuador, and northern Peru at altitudes of 2100 2600 m.[1] The species was first described and named by Kunth in 1818.[2]

Buddleja longifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Buddleja
Species:
B. longifolia
Binomial name
Buddleja longifolia

Description

Buddleja longifolia is a dioecious shrub or small tree 17 m, occasionally <10 m, high with grey, furrowed bark. The young branches are quadrangular and tomentulose, bearing oblong-lanceolate to oblong elliptic leaves 10 20 cm long by 3 6.5 cm wide, glabrescent above, tomentose to tomentulose below. The white to pale yellow paniculate inflorescence is 15 25 cm long by 15 22 cm wide with three orders of branches, the flowers borne in sessile cymules 4 7  mm in diameter, each with 1 6 flowers. The corolla is 2 3 mm long.[1]

Cultivation

The species is not known to be in cultivation.

References

  1. Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. Flora Neotropica 81. New York Botanical Garden, USA
  2. Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth (1818). Nov. gen. sp. ed. fol. 2: 281, ed. quar. 2: 349. t. 186. 1818.
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