Buddleja hatschbachii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Buddleja
Species:
B. hatschbachii
Binomial name
Buddleja hatschbachii
E. M. Norman & L. B. Sm.

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

  1. 1 2 Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. Flora Neotropica 81. New York Botanical Garden, USA
  2. Norman, E. M. & Smith, L. B. (1976). Fl. Illus. Catatr. Logan. 15 - 17. t 2, f. 4 - 6., 1976.
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