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 | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Genus: | Buddleja |
| Species: | B. jamesonii
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| Binomial name | |
| Buddleja jamesonii | |
Description
editBuddleja 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
editThe shrub is not known to be in cultivation.
References
edit- ^ León-Yánez, S.; Pitman, N. (2003). "Buddleja jamesonii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2003: e.T43469A10805890. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2003.RLTS.T43469A10805890.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ a b Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. Flora Neotropica 81. New York Botanical Garden, USA
- ^ Bentham, G. (1846). D C.,Prodromus 10: 441. 1846.
- ^ Harvard University Herbarium Index of Botanists. [1].