Buddleja madagascariensis
Diagnostic description 5
Buddleja madagascariensis Lam., Encycl. 1: 513. 1785.
Scandent shrub, sometimes twining, 2-5(10) m in length. Branches obtusely quadrangular, tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves opposite; blades 8-16 × 2.7-4.5(6.2) cm, lanceolate, ovate, or elliptical, coriaceous, the apex acuminate or less frequently acute, the base rounded, the margins entire or denticulate; upper surface sparsely tomentulose; lower surface lanate-tomentose, whitish or ferruginous, with prominent venation; petioles 5-15 mm long; stipules early deciduous. Flowers short-pedicellate to subsessile, in dichasia grouped in terminal thyrses, 5-25 cm long. Calyx campanulate or broadly campanulate, whitetomentose, 2.5-4 mm long, the sepals deltate, 0.5-1 mm long; corolla yellow-orange, tubular, 8.5-11 mm long, white-tomentose outside. Fruit unknown in the collections from Puerto Rico.
Phenology: Collected in flower in April and September.
Status: Exotic, cultivated, escaped or persistent, uncommon.
Selected Specimens Examined: Acevedo-Rdgz., P. 11454.
Distribution 6
Distribution: Ornamental, cultivated in the gardens of the Cordillera Central, escaped or persistent in the Villalba area. Native to Madagascar, but widely cultivated in the subtropics.
Public forest: Toro Negro.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10242713
- (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10241960
- (c) Forest & Kim Starr, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Starr_031114-0023_Buddleja_madagascariensis.jpg
- (c) Forest & Kim Starr, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/50461.jpg
- (c) Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/28435191
- (c) Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/28435733
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