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Buddlejaceae - Buddleja L.

Description:

  • Shrubs, erect, bushy, scrambling or climbing, sometimes trees; pubescence often scaly or stellate
  • Leaves opposite or occasionally subopposite
  • Inflorescence of many-flowered, terminal and axillary, paniculate cymes, occasionally cymes congested into subglobose heads
  • Calyx pubescent without, glabrous within, persistent
  • Corolla: tube short to long, campanulate to cylindric, sometimes bearded in throat; lobes imbricate, becoming strongly recurved from above base
  • Stamens arising on corolla tube at or near throat, included to long-exserted; anther thecae distinct, ± parallel
  • Ovary pubescent
  • Capsules small, ovoid, obovoid or oblong, sometimes 2-lobed, shortly or long-exserted from persistent calyx
  • Seeds oblong, compressed
  • x = 19 (high polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • Buddleja L.
    • Linnaeus: 112 (1753)
    • Verdoorn: 159 (1963) as Buddleia
    • Leeuwenberg: 333 (1983)
  • Chilianthus Burch.
    • Burchell: 94 (1822)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 100, Africa, Asia and America
  • Southern Africa: Species 7, widespread

References:

  • BURCHELL, W.J. 1822. Travels in the interior of southern Africa 1. Longman, London
  • LEEUWENBERG, A.J.M. 1983. Loganiaceae. Flora zambesiaca 7,1
  • LINNAEUS, C. 1753. Species plantarum. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm
  • VERDOORN, I.C. 1963. Loganiaceae. Flora of southern Africa 26

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