| Buddleja skutchii | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Genus: | Buddleja |
| Species: | B. skutchii |
| Binomial name | |
| Buddleja skutchii | |
Buddleja skutchii is endemic to much of the sierras of Central America, growing mostly in pine-oak forest, also in cloud forest, and in shrubby secondary growth. The species was first named and described by Morton in 1935.[1][2]
Description
Buddleja skutchii is a dioecious tree 5 – 25 m tall, with brown to blackish fissured bark. The young branches are quadrangular and tomentose, bearing lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate leaves 6 – 20 cm long by 2 – 10 cm wide, membranaceous to subcoriaceous, glabrescent above, below with adpressed indumentum, the margins entire. The yellow to orange paniculate leafy-bracted inflorescences are 8 – 15 cm long by 8 – 20 cm wide, comprising 3 – 4 orders of branches bearing small cymules 0.4 – 0.6 cm in diameter, each with 3 – 15 flowers. Ploidy: 2n = 76.[2]
Cultivation
The species is grown at the Strybing Arboretum and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and in France at Le Jardin de Rochevieille.[3]
Subspecies
Two subspecies have been identified by Norman:[2]
- Buddleja skutchii C. V. Morton subsp. skutchii E. M. Norman (syn. Buddleja matudae Standl.)
- Buddleja skutchii C. V. Morton subsp. costaricensis E. M. Norman