Buddleja sessiliflora
| Buddleja sessiliflora | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Buddlejaceae |
| Genus: | Buddleja |
| Species: | B. sessiliflora |
| Binomial name | |
| Buddleja sessiliflora Kunth | |
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Buddleja sessiliflora, commonly known as Rio Grande Butterfly-bush or Tepozán, is a species of flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae.[1] It is native to southern Arizona and the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States[2] as well as much of central and northern Mexico excluding the Chihuahua Desert and Baja California Sur.[1] The shrub grows in thorn savannah, forests, riparian zones, along roadsides and in disturbed areas from sea level to 2,800 m. The species was first named and described by Kunth in 1818.[3][4]
Description
B. sessiliflora is a trioecious shrub or small tree 1.5 - 5 m tall, the trunk reaching < 7 cm diameter, its fissured bark yellowish-brown. The young branches are subquadrangular, yellowish, the youngest sections tomentose. The leaves vary widely, those at the base ovate, 9 - 23 cm long by 5 - 14 cm wide, the margins serrate, whilst the upper leaves are lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 5 - 15 cm long by 1.5 - 3 cm wide, the margins entire or irregularly serrulate. The upper surfaces of both are generally glabrescent. The yellow leafy-bracted inflorescences are 6 - 25 cm long, comprising sessile or short pedunculate heads 1 - 3 cm in diameter, each with 10 - 35 flowers. The scent of the flowers is generally regarded as unpleasant, 'like ammonia but sweeter'. Ploidy: 2n = 76.[4]
Cultivation
The species is known to be in cultivation in France at Le Jardin de Rochevieille.
References
- 1 2 "Taxon: Buddleja sessiliflora Kunth". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2004-08-25. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
- ↑ Mild, Christina (April 2009). "Wonderful and Woody Shrubs of the Water’s Edge...and Beyond" (PDF). The Sabal (Native Plant Project) 26 (4): 2.
- ↑ Kunth, in Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth. (1818). Nov. gen. sp., ed. fol. 2:278, ed. quar. 2:345, t184, 1818.
- 1 2 Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. Flora Neotropica 81. New York Botanical Garden, USA
External links
Media related to Buddleja sessiliflora at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Buddleja sessiliflora at Wikispecies