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Buddleja corrugata

Species of flowering plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Buddleja corrugata is a species endemic to north-western Mexico including the Baja California Sur, growing on limestone at altitudes of 2001900 m; it was first described and named by Jones in 1933.[1][2]

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Description

Buddleja corrugata is a small, dioecious, multi-branched shrub 0.11 m high, with grey-black rimose bark. The young branches are terete and tomentose, bearing small, sessile, subcoriaceous ovate, ovate-oblong, or linear, leaves 14 cm long by 0.23 cm wide. The yellow or orange inflorescences comprise 38 pairs of globose heads 0.51 cm in diameter, each with 620 flowers, subtended by short bracts; the corolla tubes are 24 mm long.[2]

The species is considered closely related to Buddleja utahensis and Buddleja marrubiifolia.[2]

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Subspecies

Jones identified three subspecies, distinguished by differences in the leaves:

  • B. corrugata subsp. corrugata
  • B. corrugata subsp. gentryi
  • B. corrugata subsp. moranii

Cultivation

The species is not known to be in cultivation.

References

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