Buddleja domingensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Buddleja
Species:
B. domingensis
Binomial name
Buddleja domingensis
Synonyms
  • Buddleja calcicola Urb.

Buddleja domingensis is a species endemic to the uplands of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, growing in rocky, limestone ravines, along forest edges and roadsides; it was first described and named by Ignatz Urban in 1908.[1][2]

Description

Buddleja domingensis is a dioecious or possibly trioecious shrub or small tree 26 m high, with subquadrangular, lanate young branches bearing leaves with petioles 12 cm long, membranaceous ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate 1324 cm long by 38 cm wide, tomentose to glabrescent above, lanate below. The yellow inflorescences are 1027 cm long, with one or rarely two orders of branches, comprising heads 1.52.5 cm in diameter, each with 2050 flowers, borne in leafy-bracted racemes; the corolla tubes are 33.5 mm long. Ploidy: 2n = 38 (diploid).[2]

Cultivation

The species is not known to be in cultivation.

Etymology

The species has been given the specific epithet "domingensis", as it occurs on the island of Hispaniola. This island was historically called Santo Domingo, or Saint-Domingue.

References

  1. Urban, I. (1908). Symb. antill. 5: 460, 1908.
  2. 1 2 Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. Flora Neotropica 81. New York Botanical Garden, USA
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