Buddleja jamesonii

Buddleja jamesonii is a species endemic to southern Ecuador, where it grows in moist, protected ravines and borders of tussocks at elevations of 3,000 – 4,000  m.[2] The species, first named and described by Bentham in 1846,[3] is now threatened by habitat loss. The specific name commemorates the Scottish botanist William Jameson (1796-1873) who collected in Ecuador.[4]

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

Description

Buddleja jamesonii is a trioecious shrub 0.5 – 1.5 m high with greyish fissured bark at the base. The stems are subquadrangular and lanose, crowded with leaves on short axillary branches. The leaves are sessile, lanceolate and comparatively small, 3 – 4 cm long by 1 – 2 cm wide, lanose on both sides. The cream inflorescence typically comprises just one terminal head, occasionally with a pair of additional sessile heads, each 0.8 – 1.6 cm in diameter, with 15 – 30 flowers. The corolla is 3.5 – 4.5 mm long.[2]

Cultivation

The shrub is not known to be in cultivation.

References
  1. León-Yánez, S. & Pitman, N. 2003. Buddleja jamesonii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 August 2007.
  2. Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. Flora Neotropica 81. New York Botanical Garden, USA
  3. Bentham, G. (1846). D C.,Prodromus 10: 441. 1846.
  4. Harvard University Herbarium Index of Botanists. .
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