Buddleja
Translingual
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Buddle (“a surname”) + -ia, after English naturalist Adam Buddle. The spelling is as coined by Linnaeus, the "j" being an artefact of early modern orthography.
Proper noun
Buddleja f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Scrophulariaceae – the butterfly bush and many related flowering plants.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Lamiales - order; Scrophulariaceae - family; Buddlejeae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Buddleja sect. Buddleja, Buddleja sect. Chilianthus, Buddleja sect. Nicodemia (sections)
References
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